Ive learned a ton from your videos. Building my own setup to make a number of ash windows. Taxing but fun to figure it all out in my own way : I dont have multiple routers or table saws, so im changing things up a bit but this video in particular is really helping me. Only major difference is im using close to 5x10 in lights so im cutting lots of glazing bars and making them all continuous.
Wow I really enjoy It only your work, but your approach to it. Most of the time I’m reluctant to share that I’m an engineer, but it gives me a great appreciation for how you manufacture windows. As a woodworker myself, I appreciate the mix of tools, self made tools and methods from Harbor Freight stuff to higher end tooling. Using only what’s necessary to get the job done. Lost art I’m afraid.
Woodworking snobbery - I think it’s easy to achieve accidentally due to ease of communication via social media. There was a time when a person would let let the skills they were developing simmer and cook for a while, when what was important was the ability to properly cut a hinge on a door, rather than the brand of tool you did it with. I know this Cuban guy here in Tampa who has more talent in his little finger than most of the people I see online. He can do more with a shoestring and a fork than most people with a truck full of name brand tools. I’ve discovered that it’s the ability to see in one’s mind what it is they are trying to make and then figure out how to accomplish it with the resources at one’s disposal. Are nice tools nice? Sure they are. But skill is bound up in the person, not the tool. So anyway, that’s kinda my philosophy about it in a nutshell. Thanks for commenting and following along. I appreciate the feedback.
I don’t know that I have one video dedicated to that in its entirety, but I do have others very related and maybe useful. For example… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uxKKZ868rDM.html
Same but different, I draw a full scale height, mark on top and bottom rail, find centre of that, then half meeting rail either side of that, mark on horns and any glazing bars ( muntins I think you call them, that’s the middle ‘style’ of a door to us) Then I’ve got all my sizes, good to go, can mark peice straight off that ( no tape measure 👍🏻) rails through tennon machine- done ( one hit) meeting rails on special stack I made up from a saw blade and groove cutter on spindle- done , Morticer for styles and usually ’frank’ tenons if I’m not haunching, then run the moulding on spindle, do any horn shapes if needed, clean up joints with chisel and slight arris on all tenon edge, glue up, put in hydraulic press, tack a brace to keep square if I’m doing a lot. Then once dry, sand, and grooves for cords or springs, bevel bottom edge, prime, glaze complete It’s a lot of work eh? I really like breaking up the sawn stock on the bandsaw, less dust and only a 1.3 mm kerf of ‘waste’ each cut Glass I worry about once it’s done, maybe you’re saving old glass though, that’s why you build the sashes round the glass?
I’d love a week in your shop following you around. I’ve never used a tenon machine as you describe and I’m sure I’d learn a lot from your order of operations. I build around the glass size because here in the states, it was the glass size that determined sash size and if I know the glass size I can figure everything else out. That’s why you’ll notice in my sketch at the beginning, my scribbling is to extrapolate the glass size, and it’s once I have that that I get my other numbers. I draw out a full size templates too with especially complicated sash, diamonds, curves and such.
@@WoodWindowMakeover yeah it’s a cool piece of kit, basically the stile is clamped in a sliding carriage, there is a stop that’s set which gives tenon length. As it slides through there are two counter rotating wheels with carbide inserts that ‘slice’ the tenon, and other inserts at right angles that score the fibres for a clean shoulder, then you continue to push and it hits the scriber head and you’re ✅ Before I had a shop, I made them very similar to your method ( on site but, garden workshop 😂) I can’t add video or photos here though to show you
I love watching these videos because it shows what it's like to be a craftsman. With what i have learned so far i am going to reglaze my own windows, wish me luck. What can I do for a sash window hung sideways (referred to as privacy window) in a ranch style home that we struggle to open. I have no idea where to even start with troubleshooting. The windows move between an upper and lower thin metal guide so I can't see the condition of the wood behind.
When water gets into a glue joint, it often gets trapped and promotes rot. If there isn’t any glue, the joint is allowed to move and dry out naturally, prolonging the life of the joint.
Wow, that’s really cool- I would have never thought of that. Traditionally would that have been pinned with a nail? Or maybe a really small tapered peg? Awesome video, I’m itching to try and remake or restore some windows on my house, almost a century old. This is giving me confidence to try
Steve - You make it look easy. Thanks for the Lesson! re: Tabaco Barn. Would you recommend the Shutter "locking Bar System"? System looked economical to Build and Functional. (I've added the Video into the "Design Soup" for an upcoming Build.) PS Liked the Kilian Hardware Site! 1st order's sitting in my Mailbox now. 😀
Glad you like the video. I love the simplicity of the shutter locking bar system. Only drawback is how high the windows are. You need a ladder to reach anything.
@@WoodWindowMakeover Copy ,Thx for reply! I'll have it scaled down; for an 8ft wall. The "Charleston Trolley Barn" Is the Genesis of the Design. Even wrapping shutter w/ Galvanized tin . ?? 🤔 I like it.
Thank you my friend. I have tried many different types of wood. I used Accoya for many years but have problems with mold growing on it. Right now I am using a wood called Red Grandis
I’ve done a few videos before. Here’s one. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JMhIoqUl8Jo.html Most window sash are built in reliable, predictable ways. You can be sure that even when they were still being made exclusively with hand tools, they didn’t make them at random, this window being 32” wide the other one 32-1/2” and the next 29-3/4. No. They would have standardized their piece sizes for efficiency and accuracy. If you have an odd size sash, more than likely it’s been trimmed on-site, but started out a standard size. Make it the standard size.
This is definitely not an instructional video its just watch someone do it very very fast ill move along and find one where i can actually learn something.
Maybe you could ask what you want to learn so I could comment on it and help. Here’s another one that’s a little longer and more in depth. Kinda hard to teach a person how to make a sash in ten minutes. I teach a class where I take folks from rough lumber to divided lite sash that takes an entire week - 40, and that’s abbreviated.
