@Placidseven - MO greg is totally right. I'll try to get to a door today if I can to show you how I do it.
Is your old door hollow? Or is it a slab or an old 5 panel?

@RevStench are you going to Charlottsville

@RevStench it's a 6 panel hollow core.

@Deleted User no sir, we're working every Saturday until who knows when. We picked up a few houses in Lexington.
@Placidseven - MO the advice Greg gave you is best, with that door. And I have to give you props for doing right and not doing some half assed hack job. Way to act your color hahaha

So I broke my favorite chisel on Monday and only had a Lowe's close by to go to and I picked up this thing. It's my new favorite toy.

I know @Jhawk nc wanted to go over sharpening knives and chisels, well Friday I'm going to spend the first part of my day sharpening all my hand tools(knife, chisel, and crosscut saw). I'll put together a little tutorial for you fellas, common sense stuff.

@Placidseven - MO#5546 I've hung probably over 100 salvage doors making my own jambs and milling my own trim etc. just make sure you have plenty of shims on hand. The long cedar work the best. It can get complicated especially if you mortis your hinges. Need a good router or laminate trimmer.
With a pre-hung most of the jambs are adjustable and the door is already hinged. Don't forget your level!

There's a ton of step by step vids on YouTube if you wanna go with the salvage. It is super rewarding after you get it done. I milled and hung all the doors and trim in my house

I love that trim. If I could afford it i'd remove all the trim from my house and do Victorian style trim.

This is my apartment, 1892

I do this type of work as well as windows a lot. Double hung weighted or taped and leaded glass.

This one had pictures of the inside so it had to go back original, early 1900s. Reclaimed wood from an old oak barn, and they painted it white...

@Deleted User I dig that look, but can I ask why everything is so square?

@RevStench what are those serrations on the side of that chisel what are those for

@Deleted User it's for cutting, like a knife. I cut a few cut nails with it today. Worked great. Holds an edge pretty well.

Damn. Mean chisel! Lowe's Kobalt tools are pretty good I've got a few of them

Yeah the few I have hold up pretty well. I can't recommend their lineman pliers, stick with Kline, which I'm sure you know better than I do.

Yeah blown up quite a few pairs

@RevStench#3208 nice trim! Square - basically what my wife wanted when she found all those doors.

That square hardware is Emtek, pretty good stuff we spent a mint on

@CJames - TN#6244 oh right on. Now you need one of these.

Haha

Hahaha that's awesome

This guy tells me he does stained glass, shows me this...

Little bullshit window decoration. He did sell it to this lady for $375.

So I showed him my leaded glass,

The bottom sash on the double hung was broken out, and I matched the rest damn near perfectly.

I could do a video tutorial one day to show you guys some old school techniques.

It was incredibly hard to find glass.

Working on making 270 feet of dentil block today.

@RevStench#3208 that is beautiful work brother

@Deleted User thanks bro, I've only been doing stained glass for about 2 and a half years. It took me the better part of a year to get good at it. But one day it clicked, after probably a thousand hours haha, and I fight for every window job I can get now.
The real hard part is finding glass or finding someone talented enough to make the colored glass. Cutting glass is the easiest part. I wish I had the time and space to teach myself how blow glass.

Very nice

need some advice. I have a poured concrete porch and steps. I want to add wooden railing. Would I be better served to set my 4x4 in quickcrete or side mount them with concrete anchors and burying the bottom of the posts.

You don't want to bury wood in the ground, it sucks up water and rots. Bury them in concrete.

Yep or you can use galvanized base plates with wedge anchors if the posts can sit on the concrete

I'll be honest I'm struggling to design the porch. It's an awkward split level. If I just put up railing it's going to look hokey. I also need to incorporate a flower bed or retaining wall on both sides. They left us with a slope of large gravel.

Do you have roughly a 6'x6' porch, with about 4 or 5 steps?
And that slope is just off one edge of your home and you need to tie all together? Is the other side just grass all the way to the house?
I'm trying to visualize what the front of your home looks like. The land lay out.