Making a £6000 heritage door 

Lineseed oil paint will last a lifetime.

@@kattihatt it takes that long to dry..... 🙂

@@OriginalgEd in a jar with lid it doesnt get dry. When you paint it dries in two days indoors.

Finishes are a deep and dark art. I was told a long time ago that the manufacturers like it that way.. So.. It started with oils and waxes and these are the origins of modern Paints and Varnish's. As you point out, the Oil takes a long time to dry.. So the manufacturers added retarders to dry quicker and then every manufacturer started their own Chemical concoctions until we end up today with dulux giving us 12 ltrs of goop for a Tenner.. But look deeper and you will find many specialist Finishing manufacturers out there still making some incredible products.. Yes, they tend to be more expensive but now days labour is more expensive than materials so better to use longer lasting quality.. I used Lead paint before it was banned.. and it was beautifull.. silky smooth..

I was more impressed with the fact having kept the paint for three years, he could find it😊.

LOL, those were my exact thoughts this morning. I had to do a quick 170 mile errand and just managed to squeeze in the last opportunity this year to give the lawn a haircut before sunset, AND get back watch the end of this.

My hands get sweaty, due to stress by proxy. What a skills!

Aye, but I've got a £250 solid oak door from Howdens that's fared better than that has after 8 years

@@jongmassey You miss the point mate

For a one off bespoke door £6000 is more than double what it should cost. Perversely, pitch pine is more expensive than a mahogany hardwood doorset. The last doorset of this type that I spec'd cost just over £2000 including ironmongery and double glazing. The shame with this door is that it will have to be painted all over with primer including the bottom edge of the door, which is often missed. Paint technology has moved on leaps and bounds and the old formulations based on linseed oil simply don't last and don't give the performance required Personally, I would have spec'd a hardwood door, even for painting, all that effort with pitch pine that will give an inferior result, and the pitch pine is more expensive than a hardwood with straighter grain and less problematic due to moisture movement. 40 years ago pitch pine was the cheap alternative to a hardwood door.

@@graham6229 - Understatement of the year.

How do they come up with a $6000 price tag? I would like know

I literally stopped breathing couple of times when he did danger cuts, being afraid he will damage the piece. Amazing how much knowledge this guy have. Wish to be his aprendice!

@@ronin6044 Do you mean "appendage"? If so, you're probably not the first 😜

@kernow9324 I think he meant 'apprentice'

And that smell while sawing 😍

😊

Are you referring to the woodworking part or the fake glasswork? The fake glasswork is pretty weak IMO. I make stained glass and that’s pretty offensive really. Do the work. Woodwork was great. Glasswork not great.

The ballast is true...

Be thankful they at least think it's pretty wood, and not something so hideous that it needs painting 🤣

Yes,the roof timbers in my fathers house were all in finished pitch pine, I have seen the same elsewhere in some very ordinary cottages, so it must have been valued very low at one time, I’d guess round about the turn of the 19th century.

I doubt whether the Pitch Pine was used just as ballast.. there are far easier/cheaper things to use.. But it's certainly very heavy. It's main use was in Industrial Buildings and especially 18/19th century churches because of the high 'pitch' content made large and long sections (12" x 12") very stable and can still be obtained from reclaim yards. As a joiner I came across reclaimed pitch pine in the 1980's and it was very popular with the 'stripped Pine' folks who I made Furniture and general house joinery for a number of years. The benefit of reclaimed PP is it's stability as it has had 200 years to dry. I feel the timber used in this project was recent growth. It may well have been Kiln dried but that only removed moisture.. I bought 25 x 5" x 6" x 9' Timbers about 15 years ago (apparently from a 300 year old church in East London..) and have been gently using it in projects around my house. I am very fond of it although machining it gives a very pungent aroma. Of all the atrocities of WW2 I think I actually cried when I saw an old news story about bombing of the East London Docks and about 10 acres of stacked Pitch pine was destroyed/burnt.. What a waste..

@@Mole-Skin I never want to correct anyone else, as we are all in the trade, but the ballast is true, it's value was yet to be appreciated, secondly there is no new to the market commercial Pitch Pine in the UK only reclaimed is legally available, I have personally been to and used a supplier of reclaimed Pitch Pine in Bolton that when you see it it takes your breath away, it's vast, as far as the eye can see, as regards the east end destruction, a drop in the ocean to what has been lost to the destruction of the rainforests...👍🙂🤝

It needs keeping on top of but it allows the wood to breath still, it breaks my heart when people cover beautiful doors in gloss or other plasticy paints, it just rots from the inside

Same here, NYW and Bradshaw.

@@UnjustifiedRecs it is a fair call with breathing. Other modern paints are good as well. Supadec is my favourite

I'm not a huge fan of linseed oil paint either, but for that matter, not a fan of Gorilla glue in such an application. But good to see the attention detail on the rest.

Well,well ! I have never seen a wired bell push actually on the door ! They were mostly clockwork bells on the door,or wired on the frame or on a pattern on the wall.

Pitch pine! I could see that indeed it was. It used to be a commonplace name for that specific timber and our victorian house is delightfully full of it. BUT, what is the technical name? In the US pitch pine is not a major timber source. I have seen Douglas Fir referred to as pitch pine and Red Deal which is Scots Pine is quite similar. So what is the real name of this now rare timber.

@@johnpaulson1079 pitch pine official name is Pinus Rigida it is a very resinous timber was always lovely to work with (apart from the resin gumming up tools and sandpaper). It is extremely heavy in comparison to Douglas Fir and in my opinion a lot more rot resistant.

Yeah, they haven’t got a clue, people like Yorkshire too few these days.

Amen!

Excellent work you are very talented

Well I hope wasn't along the lines of "how not to build a door"! 🤣

@@NewYorkshireWorkshop no your video was great 😂 we used you as an example of how one would build a door :)