The latest news and recent projects from The Otter Workshop.
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Here are some very large and heavy barn doors made for a Dartmoor barn, a real challenge, as the frame and hinges were grossly out of line!
These doors were constructed of green oak to ensure good rot resistance and fastened with marine grade stainless screws and bolts to resist the corrosive action of oak on steel/iron.
In time the doors will age to a silver tone and allowances have been made for the inevitable movement due to the damp Dartmoor weather.
A client commissioned me to construct a cabinet to hide an unsightly radiator (and to increase its efficiency by redirecting heat into the room instead of up the wall!). Constructed of tulip wood with an English oak top, traditional joinery is used throughout.
The cabinet had to fitted around existing pipework and therefore could not be free-standing, but still needed to have the facility to be easily removed so as to expose the radiator for cleaning and servicing.
Below, the left hand view shows the attachment to the lath and plaster wall.
One locating dowel each side enables the entire cabinet (apart from the permanently fixed wall uprights) to be removed from the wall. This was achieved using dry mortices, the top being laminated to prevent splitting over time by repeated removal and replacement of the cabinet over the years
