How To Clamp Mortise and Tenon Joints - SOLID WOOD DOOR SERIES - Video 9

This is the ninth video in a detailed series featuring important aspects of finishing, sanding, gluing and clamping a traditional solid wood door. http://AskWoodman.com/

Video Nine is all about clamping. Woodman clamps the door components into initial squareness. Then final position clamping is shown using clamping cauls and pipe clamps to fully press the mortise and tenon joints together. Rapid action clamps, C-clamps and pipe clamps are utilized for this process.
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Be sure to check out the other videos in the Solid Wood Door Series. The complete series starts with explaining how to build a stunning tung oil based finish using Waterlox Original. It also shows detailed instruction for how to prep the surface, how to glue and clamp mortise and tenon joints using PC7 and various clamps, how to make a blow out repair, and multiple sanding techniques and philosophy. As a bonus, you'll see my very unique door holding system that spins effortlessly on a rotisserie style mechanism to ensure perfect finish application.
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[Roxy4217]

Mate I'm wanting to make a medieval door for my house and I have been quoted $1700 AUS including jams. I want to use Cypres and its about $20 per metre and the mesurments are 1300 mm by 2 metres high and 45 mm wide so meterial roughly is going to cost me about 5 to 600. There is no art work just tongue groves and clamping to gether do you think a timber yard would be able to do this for me cause I think its pritty steep to pay over $1000 for the labour and I don't have the tools. What can I do?

[askwoodman]

@Roxy4217 I am not familiar with relative currency values for the AUS, so perhaps I am misinformed but that quote of 1700 for wood, door and jamb sounds very reasonable. Does that price include finish and installation? Get several quotes and look at examples of different shop's work. Is the cypress you are considering N. American or do you have a variety there?

[Roxy4217]

@Roxy4217 AUS is Australian Dollar. But I went and sourced a timber hard to see if I could do it cheeper and they told me that if what I wanted to do wants to be a top quality job and the most affordable rate they recomeneded this fellow which was the same guy I went to in the first place. So your statement on a good price was right. So I'll stop being stingy and open up my wallet. Thank you very you advice.

[MichiganMaker]

Great video. Thanks for the tips.