fabrication

[for once, not OT from cottage renovations]

the Excellent Trim Carpenter has been busy fabricating screen and storm window frames in his shop; he has also gotten a good start on the new upper front window.  this morning he brought one of each size for a sanity check against apertures, as well as the upper front window mocked into a frame.  he is rebuilding the latter out of old window components that were on hand, from which ripply old glass will also be reused. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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cross sections: (L to R) frame, cross piece, primed frame showing notch


joint detail


sash in frame

I do have to admit to a certain perverse satisfaction with the notion of replacing aluminum frame storm-and-screen sets with these wooden framed ones which will combine the older design with contemporary, thermally efficient glass.  old tech doesn't have to be low tech.