Finish Carpentry

Loose-tenon joinery and applied moldings keep door construction simple and strongby Paul Levine

An infeed support arm and outfeed table improve extra reach and stabilityby Paul Levine

Whether the door is new or old, Tucker Windover's technique produces a perfectly aligned door that closes properly and stays closed when you want it toby Tucker Windover

With this design, you'll be able to secure your workpieces with just a couple pieces of scrap woodby Justin Fink

Starting with a prehung door, you can create an elegant vestibule by adding frame-and-panel jamb extensionsby Gary Striegler

Remodelers of every skill level need to know the basics of marking, scoring, and cutting a door so it swings with ease and looks cleanby John Ross

Learn how to make and fine-tune the template, then measure, cut, and replace the threshold like a proby Gary M. Katz

Trim placement and special hardware make possible the tight tolerances that eliminate telltale gapsby Joel Wheeler

The keys to a successful installation are careful layout and sharp toolsby Tom O'Brien

A step-by-step guide to laying out and cutting a mortise for a door hingeby Tom O'Brien

For a clean, contemporary look, create a door jamb, stop and casing from one piece of woodby Kevin Luddy

With hollow-core doors, you can skip the shims and hang the jambs from the casing without sacrificing qualityby Gary M. Katz

A veteran builder and teacher shares the rules that shape his workby Will Beemer

Preassembling the jambs and the casings makes for a faster, more accurate jobby Jim Britton

Meticulous layout and milling yield new doors to match the original windows of a 19th-century Greek revivalby Scott McBride

An accurate level and a bucketful of shims will correct just about any out-of-plumb conditionby Jim Britton

Sometimes complex shapes and profiles are easier to make in plaster than in woodby Frank C. Freyvogel

Build a custom interior or exterior door with common job-site tools and readily available materialsby John Birchard

Using a shaper to produce coped-and-sticked frames and raised panelsby Joseph Beals III