10-06-2010, 11:45 PM
Justin --
If you have access to a table saw, it is possible to rip the doors down to the desired width, carefully peel the lamination off the section removed, sand any residue off, spread with carpenters' glue and reinsert the "edge stiffener" back into the hollow core, making sure you don't push it in too far.
In art school, several of us did exactly that with 3'-0" x 6'-8" H.C. doors, cutting them down to a length of 4'-6" and using them as drawing board tops! Just cover them with a sheet of Borco and done! A cheap drawing board for the student apartment ... turn it over, cover that side with a piece of "cold-press" illustration board and it becomes a "double-duty" work surface ... drawing board on one side, model building surface on the other ... just depends which side is up when sitting on the saw horses.
If you have access to a table saw, it is possible to rip the doors down to the desired width, carefully peel the lamination off the section removed, sand any residue off, spread with carpenters' glue and reinsert the "edge stiffener" back into the hollow core, making sure you don't push it in too far.
In art school, several of us did exactly that with 3'-0" x 6'-8" H.C. doors, cutting them down to a length of 4'-6" and using them as drawing board tops! Just cover them with a sheet of Borco and done! A cheap drawing board for the student apartment ... turn it over, cover that side with a piece of "cold-press" illustration board and it becomes a "double-duty" work surface ... drawing board on one side, model building surface on the other ... just depends which side is up when sitting on the saw horses.
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln