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Sean, vacuum kiln drying is already done commercially.

It looks a bit too exotic for a man of your simple tastes, Bob.

Interesting approach, Bob. Hope the end grain lengths hold up for you.

Basket weaving is like broom making. Very useful goods.

Hell of a thing. I know it's the far north approach, but if he trued up the outside first it wouldn't be bouncing around so much and he wouldn't have to so much fear it flying of and him possibly being decapitated. :\:

I believe that the furniture found in the tombs in the pyramids was glued together with a type of hide or other animal parts glue. Stayed together for many a year.

Sounds delicate. Good if you can do glue ups with little excess. Mine tend to be messy with lots of squeeze out. Once worked in a shop that exclusively used heated up hide glue, the glue pot perpetually on the stove. Hides and hooves in there, who knows what else. Sets up almost immediately...

Bob, of those hardwoods that you mention, I'd choose Walnut over the others. The others might well be ok, but tend to have a greater tendency to be somewhat warpy in thinner thickness if in wide dimensions as well. Quarter inch is thin, even Walnut might cup a bit unless it is tenoned into...

Bob, what kind of glue are you using? Normally with woodworking glue, if you clean off the excess with water, then after everything dries, sand off the raised up grain and whatnot, there will be no stain when a finish is applied after. With an epoxy, pretty much the same, but although you can...

Sounds really good, Steve. Edge joining is tricky, you did a good job. As you mention, the angled natural edges does make for some extra difficulty gluing up. You got it covered though. They make double bar clamps where there are bars on each side of the surface being glued up. It does make...

Really? Anybody can do it, just takes trying and getting a feel for it.

Long edge joints like with slabs, first thing is you want the wood to be dry, or about as low a moisture content as your area will allow. There's kiln and natural air drying. I think preferences and some disadvantages with both ways, but that's a slightly different topic than edge gluing, so...

Nice job! The top looks nice and flat. Got a tip or two on gluing up slabs, if interested.

Looks good, Peter, it's going to be a nice door. The grain looks ok in that direction. It's a pretty common approach to have wood grain running in the direction of the maximum dimension, but sometimes with long things like your door, the grain running opposite can make for comfortable to your...