Antique Pine Bi-folding Window Shutters - Part 1 Making the Frame

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BMI Marking out tape measure - amzn.to/3P0DVix
Sprung door guide I used in the Brass Guide - amzn.to/3kLv0n4
Festool Jigsaw Fix video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmG0kKJ8lN99e9k
Welcome to Part one of this bi-folding window shutter project. In this episode I am setting out and making the frame including grooving in some bespoke Brass slide guides.
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[@mikegough4760]

I watch every topic you post and every time I learn something new. It’s also nice to see top craftsman are also human and make mistakes, makes me feel better about my slip ups. Looking forward to the next post, keep them coming.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers for that Mike! Im pleased to hear that, truly! Everyone makes mistakes, even people i deem to be the very best. Its just easier to get around them if you know the job inside out i guess.

[@chriswild2458]

@@BradshawJoinery I’ve been doing the job for over 40 years and that is a true statement ,it’s the art of working around situations

[@johnpeplow3985]

Just love the sound the chisel makes when your cleaning the grooves out.

[@BradshawJoinery]

very satisfying. Maybe i should do a compilation of relaxing woodworking noises.

[@CreativeCarpentry]

Good explanation for the thought process involved when jobs like this come up

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers David, Yes the thought process and planning is 90% of the sucess of the job tbh

[@alastairchestnutt6416]

Great to see how someone approaches bi-fold door builds. I built bi-fold garage doors with a small and a large door on each side which meant the doors do not stick out as much when opened. You really do need to have it all worked out before it is built. Very satisfying.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Yes absolutely. I love the fact it looks so simple and easy when its finished but if somebody then takes interest in the mechanics, they realise the work involved... i love their reaction at that point. It kinda sums up well done joinery all over.

[@raydriver7300]

Rebates and housing joints - good old fashioned English woodworking terms. Love your explanations, am jealous of your kit - my radial arm saw is lethal- love your honesty. The workmanship isn’t too bad either. Thanks for sharing 🌞

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Ray, Yes RAS can be lethal, i usually state this on my videos as mine isnt lethal, so i do hope some of the things i do on it arent copied!

[@bensimmons3692]

Brilliant video as always … I love the way you show it mistakes and all ! Chapeau …

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Ben 👍. Noone is perfect, certainly not me 🤣👍

[@christopherinteriors6521]

An amazing video as always and I am looking forward to the rest of this project. I for one am really prone to making mistakes but I have changed my mindset. Years ago I would get angry, go and have a cigarette and then come back to it. Now I don't smoke , I think of 2 things when making a mistake - 1. Mistakes help us learn more than when we don't make mistakes. 2. I am glad I wasn't concentrating when I marked my groove rather than not concentrating when tightening the fence on the spindle. I would rather need a couple of new bits of wood than a couple of new fingers.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thankyou Christopher! Yep, mistakes are fine and dont test patience until there is a time element or deadline introduce... that is when stress and pressure take their toll and dont do you any favours! Im pretty chilled with mistakes now. I guess because there is noone there to take the mik anymore haha!!!

[@scottcates]

I'm looking forward to watching this. I am not a cabinetmaker but I have to add a security shutter to a small cafe this week and this will, undoubtedly help me understand how to design and fasten it. Thank you, in advance!

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Scott, this may be a bit overkil for a security shutter,, and unfortunately the doors element that may be of assistance will be the next part!

[@akfisher7138]

I agree with you about positioning screws correctly. I think the vast majority of cabinet makers, carpenters particularly self taught ones, or badly trained do not have a clue about correct pilot holes, have never heard of clearance holes and you are right things never quite align and causes all sorts of issues down the line, particularly with making carcasses square, or surfaces flush, for example. Jut a wee bit of care-and knowledge- makes all the difference.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Mate, yep, its a shame something so simple as a screw can be messed up so badly. Its care and knowledge with every single detail.

[@michaelplays2449]

Great video ,thanks ! looking forward to the next part, have a nice weekend

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thankyou Michael! You too.

[@scottmclean4237]

Real master and takes real enjoyment from his work , great to see

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thanks Scott! :)

[@mauserkk98]

Well was thinking about rebates between the two frames and up comes the end of part 1 ,looking forward to part 2.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Ahah sorry, it would have been a very long video in one part, or cut details out!

[@jimbartley9125]

Nice explanation. We all make mistakes and often it's the way that "get rounds "are done which make it more interesting. Very good use of the old doors. Looking forward to seeing more. Cheers Jim

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Jim, yes mistakes are constant arent they haha. The old doors have a new life now and are looking great

[@Blade1310]

You don't know how good it made me feel when you fell foul of your own maths lesson. I now know it's not just me who struggles! Of course you also know I'm only joking - still watched the whole episode even though I got lost a few times. Great stuff. Keep it up! 😊

[@BradshawJoinery]

hahaha brilliant. Thanks matey!

[@newdutchworkshop7026]

Another great video! I really love long videos like this one but I can't seem to find the time to watch them anymore :/ Your videos among others have sparked my interest in "old fashioned carpentry", building, repairing or altering utility items like doors and windows. I find the joinery and millwork involved very fascinating and I really appreciate how you take the time to talk through the process and explain what you're doing and why.

[@BradshawJoinery]

I know that feeling! I probably spend 4/5 times the length of the video watching edits. But hopefully they are worth the effort. Im pleased to hear the videos have inspired you, That does make the effort worthwhile. Cheers matey

[@TheNorthernmunky]

Awesome job mate 👍🏼

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Logan

[@disklamer]

Brilliant bit of repurposing. On to part 2.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers buddy, 🙌 coming soon!

[@Dazza19746]

An old router plane! I’m well impressed , always fancied one 😂👍🏻 I’m a master at fixing F ups, for reasons we don’t need to divulge… I was screaming ‘turn it upside down!’ At the cill 😂👍🏻 I’m also fairly good at working out the magnitude of the F up instantly and whether it’s a redo or salvageable 👍🏻 Great to see I’m not alone 👍🏻. Success is 99 percent failure they recon, people can tell you and tell you, but that horrible ‘I’ve F’d up’ feeling and reaching in the wallet is the best teacher 😂

[@BradshawJoinery]

I love the router plane, I've always found them invaluable for certain operations! Yes I found you got good at fixing the balls ups pretty darn quick or you didn't make the grade in the workshop. The key was to fix it and not get caught before anyone would see... My work colleague had a canny back of apprearing just as I was glueing a block in a forgotten setback and giving a rye smile. (Lol)

[@gavinspencer1796]

Excellent video. This is the type of thing I really enjoy watching. Love the construction videos. Cannot wait for part two I just wish I had a fraction of your skill as I can’t even cut a straight line !!

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thankyou Gavin, They are the main type of videos i do. Tbh you dont really need to cut a straight line anymore with todays tools haha!!

[@mrnormski9005]

Love watching your videos, proper joinery takes me back to school woodwork classes in the late 1960s (me good at the theory poor at the practical) the day we got a mortiser & everyone queuing up to have a go. One of the local factories was Bursgreen (Wadkin) that made these machines & a lot of local lads got good apprenticeships there (sadly no more like every decent manufacting in the UK).

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thankyou! ahh you must be near leicester then? They were certainly setting the standard for machine production!

[@BalancedLugger]

Thanks for the details. Really useful.

[@BradshawJoinery]

No problem whatsoever

[@leftwichprojects]

Really enjoyed watching this Ollie and look forward to part two. Admire your honesty with the mistake on the track and glad you included it in the video. We are only human and we all make mistakes. As someone said to me once “it’s only a f#*k up if you can’t get round it” 😃👍 Always something for me to learn from your vids 🙌🏼

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Jason! Appreciate the comment, Yeah it would be wrong to just show contant perfection, i literally constantly have little problems to get around, but generally seen them all before now and the work arounds get easier., Back in the day i was fraught with anxiety ahah

[@leftwichprojects]

@@BradshawJoinery 🙌🏼😎

[@rick91443]

Really looking forward to your next video on this project. Great viewing and appreciate(as I am only an amateur,) your explanations...cheers...rr Normandy, Fra.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thankyou Richard, Much appreciated. Are you an ex Pat?

[@rick91443]

@@BradshawJoinery Yes, American, living now almost 40 years in France...

[@thomo74]

Great vid mate! I learnt heaps.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers Thomo

[@danimalgb8387]

Love your content and your work. Keep the videos coming please. I am interested in that RAS, never seen that style before. If you can take some time to go over it in one of your next videos it would be appreciated. I restored an old 1954 DeWalt RAS, and love it... Thanks, and keep up the good work!

[@BradshawJoinery]

Cheers matey, you are in luck there, i have bought the second one recently so did a bot of a video installing it and a walkaround

[@swt198597]

Nice work mate…I need to learn sketch up. Drawing before making is very important..

[@BradshawJoinery]

Yes Its an invaluable tool for me. Professional looking drawings quickly and you know the job will be right!

[@PeanutsDadForever]

As usual another great video! Thanks. 👴🏻🇦🇺

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thankyou Mark !!

[@tonyworkswood]

I was just thinking, that doesn't look straightforward working it out so the doors fold flat back at ninety degrees using the track guide. Then you mentioned it. Good recovery from the mishap. One of those jobs lol, hope part two goes well. Tony

[@BradshawJoinery]

Haha it wasnt too bad to recover from, could have beenworse! But as you say, something different and you get distracted its dead easy to make a mistake or get carried away. Cheers Tony

[@brinded]

Inspiring work, both educates and motivates, thanks! Based on your method I’ve made a prototype for tri-folding shutters. Only hitch is design police (wife) doesn’t approve of the gap. Hence thinking of using drop leaf table type folds. Any advice, assuming I can even find offset hinges in uk?

[@BradshawJoinery]

Thankyou David! Erm, only thing off the top of my head is use rebated doors, and normal hinges? Itll need some accurate drawing out though

[@akfisher7138]

Would you not have to take into account the thickness of hinges/barrel when working out size, or width of doors? Cheers Cracking work.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Yes, i mentioned the throw of the hinges at one point in there i think.

[@tomasrdms2707]

Hi.. trend have a tungsten countersink bits,really nice ones,not cheap,but well worth.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Yeah this is a tungsten one, the drill is really low amount of twists, not like a normal drill. I think they do quite a few, one for a dowelling bit that fits a 4mm drill is the best one I have but cannot find another.

[@jasonadams6442]

So as it turns out you are human. Haha just kidding awesome video. Can’t wait to see the rest of the project. Keep up the great work. You are the best craftsman on KZbin. You should have millions of followers. I have no doubt you will greatly increase your followers very soon. Not that that’s important.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Lol, very much indeed. The joy of the internet is you cam make things look how you want them. I definitely have made a lot of mistakes! lol. It would be nice to give the youtube more attention, and more followers would do that. I could create some real valuable educational stuff which will help people coming into the trade, but i also need to pay my bills.I would like to do an NVQ stlye online series that covers all aspects of joinery, using real world examples.

[@pyrrhical3423]

@@BradshawJoinery that would be fantastic, but it would have to be tailored to the normal workshop, I.E without some of the very expensive tooling that most wont have. I’d certainly pay for it

[@ZaknPaddy]

In one of your videos you mention a timber frame book, can you tell me what it is....I'd be interested in getting it....Cheers.

[@BradshawJoinery]

Hi jon, I cannot remember, If i find it ill try and find you back

[@rupert5390]

Greetings from aus, you may have mentioned this before, I’m binge watching you fabulous work, what’s the drawing software please.

[@BradshawJoinery]

I use google sketchup Pro. then Layout for the dimensioned drawings

[@rupert5390]

@@BradshawJoinery thank you.

[@vincentrolfe1384]

My fix for the Festool jig saw blade wobble is Bosch. hahaha

[@BradshawJoinery]

Lol, 🤣 Bosch jigsaws have always been good!

[@vincentrolfe1384]

@@BradshawJoinery I was driving a '77 Chevrolet and a gent in an old Ford pickup slid through a red light and hit my right front fender and hub cap. I bought a "new fender" on my noon hour at the local Chevy dealer and noticed the lead end of the fender to be welded wrong at the factory. Next day went to a local Bosch tool dealer and bought a 1578 Bosch. Then bought an oil drip that positioned at the blade running a 22T metal cutting blade. Still have the drip which attaches using an elongated special screw. Now we have dry cut blades-no drip. Oh, the pickup truck had 25 empty beer cans in the truck bed.

[@vincentrolfe1384]

Just use the shorter door. Let the neighbor's mice and the cat have a warm winter!

[@BradshawJoinery]

haha!

[@selinascott2643]

Could I hire you? Are you in London

[@BradshawJoinery]

Hey Selina, Im not in london no, im also booked for 2023, if thats not an issue let me know and i will forward my email adrdess, many thanks

[@cliveclapham6451]

Have l had part 2 yet???

[@BradshawJoinery]

Not yet, it's on KZbin ready to go.... I mean, I could literally press a button and boom....

[@cliveclapham6451]

@@BradshawJoinery 👍👍👍👍

[@cliveclapham6451]

🤔 posh serving hatch 🤭🤣🎯 Soss hinges ???

[@BradshawJoinery]

Haha! No I used normal 3" brass butts

[@cliveclapham6451]

@@BradshawJoinery 👀

[@graham8854]

Let's hope your brother doesn't watch this video. Busted 🤫

[@BradshawJoinery]

Haha, does sneaky behaviours.... Then posts it on the internet 🤣

[@SS-kp7hw]

eh?

[@BradshawJoinery]

Can i help?

[@richardmckrell4899]

The update on broken Festool garbage made the whole video. Festool is crap!

[@BradshawJoinery]

HAha i beg to differ, they make some fantastic kit. Not all of it, but thats the same as any brand.

[@richardmckrell4899]

@@BradshawJoinery I don't think so