Crotch Mahogany Front Entry Door

Sometimes we are asked to fabricate component parts for doors that other shops are building. This is one of those cases. We made the Crotch Mahogany panel for this door but another shop assembled the actual door. This may sound easy but it actually isn't. The challange was to come up with wider than available Crotch Mahogany to create an attractive good two side door panel. What we were able to do was to take four large African Crotch Mahogany leaves, clip them through the heart and re-splice them together to create two very large faces. The only way we can do this is to soften the crotch and flatten it. Once the veneer is throughly flattened we dry it to a point where we feel comfortable enough to work with it. Whenever you try to splice crotch heart together you have to be very careful. It can't be too wet or too dry, it needs to be moist enough to stay flat but not too moist to hold tape. Perhaps you can tell from the photo, it worked!

Crotch Mahogany Front Entry Door