Sommerfeld's Tools for Wood - Mitered Raised Panels Made Easy with Marc Sommerfeld - Part 2

Part 2 - In this information-packed vide, Marc will lead you step-by-step through a surprisingly simple approach to building beautiful mitered raised panel doors from custom 3" wide molding that you create in your own shop using your router table. You'll be amazed by how easy it really is, as you pick up loads of great tips and tricks-of-the-trade along the way from Marc Sommerfeld, one of America's leading authorities on cabinetmaking. It's another must-have addition for your How-To library. Full video length 42 minutes. Visit www.SommerfeldT... to find more videos and tools for wood-working.

[@HEKuiper]

This would work great for wainscoting too.

[@Abefamily1813]

Sommerfeld's videos are the best!! Always learn new and easier ways of doing things

[@patrickarchuleta9594]

Love those hinges can you get them in most stores .great job way to be so organized.

[@patrickarchuleta9594]

Awesome work the hinge jig you have is it for heavy duty use or sould I continue with a drill press set up. And how much is your jig. Thanks

[@mikewoodwood]

Can you give some direction to find the router bit kit you used in this presentation. I went to your website and searched but didn’t find this kit. Thanks in advance.

[@lisawilson97]

I don't know if you mentioned it in any video previously. What type of wood are you using?

[@natescustomcabinets5773]

Red Oak

[@ChristianRThomas]

Thank you. I enjoyed that.

[@portanav]

I have an TS-LS on my table saw. How do you get your arm to glide so lightly over the table? My arm moves smoothly over the table but not as easy as I see your arm does.

[@daniel326935]

at last i found a nice video ... of how to ... XD grate job .

[@loganfishbeard]

I'm not sure the "panel line strips" are necessary considering the thermal expansion coefficient for soft woods is 2x10^-7 per degree Fahrenheit. If that piece of wood is about fifteen inches than it would expand about three ten thousandths of an inch if the temperature in your house changed 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This does not seem significant, however I am not an experienced wood worker so I would like to know if there are other reasons for this, perhaps moisture content?

[@dilsmackit]

you need to get a life

[@bahhumbucker]

The concern is not thermal expansion, it is, as you supposed, expansion due to seasonally-changing moisture content. In general, as temp increases, the saturation vapor pressure of air increases... so for the same relative humidity, there is more water content in the air. The wood always wants to equilibrate with the atmosphere. So..... in the warmer seasons the wood will absorb moisture from the atmosphere, and in the cooler seasons it will lose moisture to the atmosphere. The moisture content of the wood changes the dimension across the grain; not so much with the grain. The amount depends on the wood and also on the type of heating and air conditioning you have in your home, which controls the indoor humidity level. However, it is always a concern. If you don't allow for expansion, the frame will break. You can easily see 1/16" - 1/8" change with seasons. I allow the same expansion space in all directions, just because it makes the setup easier. Technically you don't need the strips, but they keep your panel from rattling around in the groove, making for a higher quality feel to the finished product.

[@ChristianRThomas]

I think you should come and see my back gate. In the wet it gets too tight to close and in the dry it contracts enough that the Yale lock doesn't engage. So about an inch on a 3ft wide door. Not quite in the sub parts per million range. :)