As I was getting low on the stock to make doors from, I needed to find a new source, and that was Frank L Miller lumber in Indiana. They are the main supplier of quarter sawn oak in the country and probably the world so I set up a deal with them to come down and sort through piles of lumber to get what I needed. I rented a big trailer and brought a friend to help out who also knows lumber well. This load of lumber is intended to take me through the completion of all remaining doors, window and door trim and maybe some part of baseboard trim but we'll see how far it goes in the end!
The pile ended up being too much to haul back with my equipment, so we were able to get the lumber yard to ship the second half of it. Here is the first load which we hauled back with us. It was heavy enough as it was, so we were very glad to not have loaded all of it.
And picking up the second load locally at the trucking terminal
The 2 piles were similar size, and given how heavy it was, the wiser move was to ship it like we did.
So then with that in place, I managed to wrap up 2 doors in the lower level - the guest BR and the utility room. As I previously noted, they are right next to each other, so I wanted to use up the rest of my old stock here so they would look close to each other.
And here is that door for the utility room, in the finish booth, closing out 2021.
The focus for 2022 is to complete the remaining 9 doors in the house. This includes all the doors in the upper floor (6 total including 3 passage doors, 1 linen closet and a pair of double door sliders for the BR closet), and the final 3 in the basement (1 mud room closet and a pair of sliders for the guest room closet)
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