Michigan Electric 28

Rear End

This Kirk Warner pic shows how hard it is to get an overall view of the progress behind the scaffolding.  But there are restored windows and doors now enclosing the end platform area.

Mortising

Victor Humphreys is setting up the mortiser to cut a slot for a tenon.  The piece on the table is a mid rail for new baggage doors.

Baggage Door Progress

Norm Krentel and Ray Schmid have one of the long door stiles on the mortiser.  You can see the fancy molding work in cross section on the end, and some of the slots completed near the end.

Teaching Time

Ray Schmid and Norm Krentel doing a once over on the completed stile before removing it from the set up on the mortiser.

Trimming

Bob Kutella (thanks for snapping a pic, Kirk) trimming one of the stiles for the glass opening using our table mounted router.

Measure Twice

Bob Kutella measuring and marking for routing the next piece for new baggage doors.  In the background you can see some of the 24 major pieces in process, needed to assemble just two doors.

Sunday Crew

Norm Krentel holds a handful of removed parts form the original rotted baggage doors for the 28, while Ray Schmid wrestles to change the blade setup on our table saw.

Mortising

In this view, our 83 year old mortising machine has just plunged several square holes into the bottom rail of the new doors.  Ray helped a lot on this, and Norm had to stop by to inspect the work.