Doors in a Mid-century home got ruined by painting them white.
It takes a lot of time to build doors from scratch...
Home Depot has two suppliers of this type of plywood. There is no rhyme or reason as to which store has what. Sometimes the same store had a mix. The two varieties are those from Vietnam and Indonesia. One is much more red and the other is quite frankly, crap. It is an inferior grade of veneer on the plywood that is best suited for inside of drawers or sub-flooring etc.
Also found a simple but effective way to extend my clamps with what I had at the time.
Cutting out the hole for the door handle part before putting on the plywood was much less stressful. Even if I made a mistake I could still cover it up with plywood after.
Hinge cutouts need to be so precise. Is there any wiggle room for error? I don't think so, and why take the chance when I could make it perfect with my C&C tool.
The plywood from Japan shocked me. This was from a door from the 60's and wonder if they are still in business. I'm sure there would be much less variation in their quality assuming it all came from the same vendor, not like nowadays...
What did I do with all the left over white doors? Well, I built a work bench/table out of them of course!
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