Hello to you all.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a good read on window making.
Boredom thresholds quite low so pictures – exploded or otherwise would be good.
Many thanks – Owen
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Top,
In FWW #64, there is an article by a yahoo named Ray Pine, on making sash doors for furniture, another by Gene Landon in the same issue. Might be worth a look, there are pictures included. If you are interested in house windows, I think Feirer's millwork book has some info. Incidentally, I made a simple four (8 x 10) light sash door entirely with hand tools this past weekend at a craft show. One of Roy Underhill's books (first one, I think) has some info on handmade sash, as does Saloman's Dictionary of tools.
IMO, sash making is one of the more technically challenging aspects of woodworking, along with chairmaking. If you can make a piece of window sash, and build a chair, you can pretty safely call yourself a furniture craftsman.
Regards,
Ray
Last week I made a window with my Kreg jig.do that make me one of them there "craftman?"********************************************************
"It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts."
John Wooden 1910-
nikki,
Not til you can make a chair wif yer Kreg jig too. Put a winder in the seat of a cheer, do it all in one swell foop. Then, when the wife tries it out, you can have pressed ham under glass fer dinner.
Cheers,
Ray
Joinerwork,
...integrated chair and window...are you sure you don't mean Outhouse?
BG,
The johnnyhouse on our farm didn't have any windows, not even a crescent moon cutout in the door. Did have two round cutouts in the seat board tho. And you could peer through the cracks between the wall boards.
A 2 holer!
Strange place to be lookin for pressed ham?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 5/15/2007 2:41 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Edited 5/15/2007 2:46 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Ah, Bob,
The pressed ham was under the glass, remember? But the two holer was not that far from the pigpen, and the henhouse, to be honest.
Ray
Outside FWW, checkout the woodweb (http://www.woodweb.com), they do seem to argue a lot, but once you make through all that most are very wise.
Top:
Maybe the attached will help.
Hastings
Brilliant - many thanks
Owen
More of a breaktime question. Look for books on architectural woodworking. Audels books have sections on window making as do many older carpentry books. Have you looked at the booklist in Fine Home building or carpentry web sites?
Hi Owen... I don't know if this will help but there's a book titled
"Working Windows"... a guide to the repair & restoration of wood windows. Terence Meaney, Author.
Produced by The Lyons Press,
31 West 21 St. NEw York, NY 10010.
It was printed in 1998. ISBN # 1-55821-707-X
SawdustSteve
Might want to try "Make your own handcrafted doors ans windows" by John Birchard. It came highly recommended when I set out to track down how to do exterior windows. I haven't had a chance to put into pratice the techniques but I found it very informative. Look up a copy on ebay because it's out of print.
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Isbn 0-8069-6544-4
Good luck in making your windows,
Rehab.
Some years ago i made a bunch of windows out of cedar. I was faced with obtaining hardware reasonably, and as the local glazier was doubling the wholesalers price, who was doubling the truth price, they were pretty pricy....
A phone call to Truth in minnesota yielded this name down the road from em.
http://www.alcosupply.com/default.asp
Truth hardware (used to/?still has) has a lifetime warranty, so it is
dependable.
even with shipping and exchange my landed cost on the openers was roughly 1/3 the price of my local yokel, even at trade prices!
The woodwork gets a tad complicated when you gotta factor in the hardware and weather stripping. Opener covers were always fun, cause they gotta be attached in such a fashion so that they are removable to service the openers.
It was a lot of fun, but perhaps I had a good intro by having to repair a lot of windows. Ain't done it for years now, still got a box of truth hardware bric-a-brac waitin for the next phone call. Kinda like maytag repairman stuff.
Have fun. On succesful completion, yer gonna get some braggin rights. And a lot of "can you fix my windows" type of queries....
Eric
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