On 3/26/2012 2:19 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Mar 25, 11:01 am, wrote:
On 3/25/2012 9:14 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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Drill a couple of deep countersinks in the bottom for the screws, glue
and screw it in place. Buy a six-pack or case of beer for the guy that
made it for you.

I use (and recommend using) dowels instead of screws for this purpose.

....

Or biscuits, which give you a little more leeway as far as lining the
parts up.

Possible and workable, but for this specific purpose (which I have done
quite a few times to salvage/modify doors on farm outbuildings in
particular(*)) I drill/insert the dowels after gluing on the new piece;
I don't try to use them to line up the scab w/ the door. For that I use
blocking to clamp against on the surface.

I now have a wide glue-joint shaper cutter; I'm thinking the next time
it comes up I'll run it (if I can figure out a way to get the door past
the shaper spindle, that is ).

(*) I "grew" a 32x80 to 36x80 for the old shop salvaging an old door
from the old house that lost its job in a remodel folks did some 50
years ago and had been sitting in a corner in the barn loft ever since...

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