This weekend’s work featured quite a lot of difficult angle cutting to finish siding the Snout. Also, it now has doors. Or, as I like to call them, “Nostrildoormus”. They can smell the future.
I have materials to do some “roofing” on it, as well – not deployed yet. I need to get some galvanized staples first. The roofing material is too thin for the nails I’ve been using for everything else.
Meanwhile, a little more work on the front door.
No matter how many clamps a wood worker has, that wood worker does not have enough clamps. Once again, some cast concrete to the rescue. Sure, I could have waited until the things on the right were done and then used *those* clamps, but why wait when one can weight? Exactly.
What’s going on here, you ask? This is my patchwork door. The interior will showcase the patchwork nature of it, where gaps and other imperfections will be treated in the kintsugi manner.
The exterior, on the other hand, needs to blend a bit better with the siding pattern than some random patchwork of horizonal lumber. And so it shall.
The door goes on the tall wall, which has angled siding. The door will be faced with the same siding, but veritcally oriented, to set it off a little.
To set it off more, there will be three diamonds of that same siding material, put together and oiled in such a way as to feature their contrasting grain orientation. This clamping riot is holding them down while their glue sets.
Like this. Here is the beginning of the exterior face of the door. You can see the diamonds I was talking about. The astute observer will notice that the diamonds are made of four squares, each of which are actually composed of two triangles each, for a total of eight pieces per major diamond. The trim around the diamonds will be painted forest green, matching the light ports (also green and square) elsewhere on that same wall. The rest of the field of the door will have the vertical siding, just like the head wall you can see two photos ago. To set off the door even more, I may paint the rectangular trim around the door green as well. I think that will add some nice contrast without being too gaudy.
The very astute observer will notice center holes in each diamond. Therein will be mounted some mineral specimens — fluorite at the top, rose quartz in the middle, and hematite at the bottom. They will be potted with clear epoxy.