On Mar 20, 1:42*am, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:07:10 -0700 (PDT), Greg Guarino

wrote:
On Mar 19, 10:16*pm, tiredofspam nospam.nospam.com wrote:
Please take these constructively. I'm sure you learned a lot during this
build.

1. Your Splines *grain is going in the wrong direction. You want this to
provide extra support, so you set the grain to go 90 degrees to what you
have them.

Hadn't thought of that. I can see now how the strength of the spline
would be greater "your" way, but I think it should be adequate in this
application as is.

I -thought- I saw a 'wrong' spline there. If the grain direction is
the same as that of the stile (which I thought I saw) it can break
very easily, especially with the little gaps you had. Slam the door
hard once and it could be CURTAINS! *G'luck!

The grain runs in the same direction as the stiles, vertically. See
below

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdguari...0027/lightbox/

As for the gap, it's only on the first door I made. The splines were
tighter than they should have been, and I guess a little wider as
well. I fixed that problem (with a block plane) for the second door.