re: Constructing the door

LOL sanding. Actually it doesn’t take that long. You’ll see in the next installment. :-)

A couple of thingsi forgot to mention.

The top rail is over-height so I can trim it to exactly 4" later.

Before I clamped, I trimmed off most of the excess stiles so it would fit on the table.

And even though I screwed up some of the tenon shoulders, I learned today how to better cut the tenons to avoid as much tear out as I usually get. Slow, slow, slow to cut to mimic a crosscut blade (more teeth, more and smaller cuts).