On 7/19/2012 4:21 PM, Puddin' Man wrote:
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I think it's mostly the dowels causing the warp, b/c the stile (thankfully) looks
mostly flat when placed on the bsmt floor. But I dunno what to do about it.

Your candid opinion, kind sir?
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Have you fitted tight dowels? If the dowels were shrunken or the holes
hogged out as we talked before then sure, there's going to be play there.

The last picture shows what appears to perhaps be significant structural
damage to the wood itself that has not been apparent in any previous
pictures. If that is in fact the case, then either you have to repair
it or otherwise work around it...

As pointed out before, you've got to get back to solid material and
tight-fits one way or another--I suggested going larger as it's easiest
if the wood is basically solid; at least one other suggested regluing in
dowels and redrilling them--that _MIGHT_ work but ime generally all you
get is the remnants of the that attempted plug spinning in the hole as
that thick of a glue line rarely has enough strength to hold.

If it's not solid right around the holes but is elsewhere, there's where
I've on occasion gone to replacing the dowels w/ loose tenons but
connecting between adjacent holes to house them.

You just have to be creative and deal with what you have and figure out
what will work for the particular case.

As for the coping cuts and cleaning them up -- as noted, it's a
combination of many tools and patience. I'm lucky in having a fully
equipped shop and can find scrapers or make one to fit virtually any
cope--lacking that it's more time consuming. Eventually w/ care you can
finally sand lightly to smooth things all out again but be careful to
not smear the profiles...

But, if there isn't enough solid wood in the stile and bottom rail then
w/o the facility to make a replacement fill-in piece or whole new stile
or rail (or both) you have come to an impasse. I can't tell from here
of course, but that last picture doesn't look good just from the surface
and the missing section...that image never showed up before.

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