WOOD SOFT-ARCHING ARBOR #15

#15
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CUSTOM WOOD ARBOR #15

The Four-Post Garden Arbor #15 specifications have chnaged as of spring 2024. Although some of the examples below show the trusses at 2-¼” and 3″ thickness, the original, and standard going forward are trusses at 1-⅝” thickness.

  • Soft radius, with mortised cross-slats.
  • Arched trusses at 1-5/8″ thickness x 3-1/2″ or 5-1/2″ width.
  • Optional Keystones (Base + 7%)
  • Built to your specified width and depth.
  • Shipped fully assembled.
  • When accompanying a gate that has an arched top rail, the radius of the arbor and the gate are commonly matched.

custom wood arching arbor #15c

#15-5
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CUSTOM WOOD ARBOR #15-5

Garden Gate Arbor #15-5 shows 5-1/2″ wide trusses at 3″ thickness. (The 3″ thickness is no longer available). Keystones.
Accompanying foyer panels as fence style #20.

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CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-5

Orinda, CA

Garden Gate Arbor #15-5 as a free-standing assembly. Shown with optional Foyer Panels Style #21, with the open grids acting as the perfect host for climbing vines.

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CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-5

Orinda, CA

A good look at the flush-joined grids of the optional Foyer Panel.

Rodney and his new sweetheart Ms. Mullens have taken a stroll in the gardens when he learns of her hidden past. The grids. A grid phobia, and he wonders What Else? What else is she hiding and why can’t he find a normal girl. Just a normal sweetheart. Is that asking so much?

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CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-5

Orinda, CA

Garden Gate Arbor #15-5 as a free-standing assembly prior to installation of the Foyer Panels and the eventual maturing foliage.

#15-8
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CUSTOM WOOD ARBOR #15-8
Keystone. Mounting caps
1-⅝” thick trusses

The Garden Arbor #15-8 shows 5-1/2″ wide trusses at 3″ thickness. (The 3″ thickness is no longer available) Keystones.
Shown with foyer panels style #21 and Dutch Gate #116-2
The arbor depth on this image is 48″.

wood garden arching arbor #15-8 in La Jolla, CA

CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-8

La Jolla, CA

Photographed two years later, with the wisteria in full bloom.

Custom wood arching arbor #14-8 in La Jolla, CA

CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-8

La Jolla, CA

From within the property

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CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-8

La Jolla, CA

On approach from the street.

custom wood arbor #15-8a in La Jolla, California

CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-8

La Jolla, CA

Sometimes it’s nice to see a ‘before’ photo. An upgrade, you’ll agree.

before site photo of wood arbor #15-8 in La Jolla, CA

#15-4
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CUSTOM WOOD ARBOR #15-4

The Garden Arbor #15-4 with the two crossbeams of 3″T x 5-1/2″.
Arbor trusses at 1-⅝”T.
Keystone

#15-4 is designed as a 2-post arbor, requiring corbels.

custom wood arbor #15-6 cropped

CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-4

Shown with Garden Gate Style #20
Prowell’s Arched Corbel #1
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Custom Cedar Corbels #1

#15-2
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CUSTOM WOOD ARBOR #15-2

Orinda, CA
Keystone. Power source embedded wiring extra

The Garden Arbor #15-2 shown with Garden Gate style #20, with a keystone. 1-⅝” thick arbor trusses

Here we see the radius of the gate arch considerably softer than that of the arbor, primarily because the gate width is 60″. To match the gate radius to that of the arbor would have raised the gate arch, and consequently the overall height of the arbor beyond that allowed by local codes. It’s never a cut-and-dry option.

wood garden arbors in Orinda, California

CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15-2

Orinda, CA

Garden Arbor #15-2 is configured to allow a lighting fixture mounted to the underside of the arbor. To have your arbor wired for a lighting fixture with fully concealed wiring, as shown below: add $325. The wiring is embedded and will stub out coiled from the mounting cap with sufficient length to run the length of the site post and junction at grade to the source.

#15
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CUSTOM WOOD ARBOR #15

Mill Valley, CA
Keystone. Arbor trusses: 1-⅝” thickness

An early #15 Gate Arbor from the late 90’s. The side, or ‘Foyer’ panels, show arching top rails. Shown with Garden Gate #57, and Fence Style #2.

Fout-Post wood gate arbor #15 in Marin County, CA

CUSTOM WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15

Mill Valley, CA

The same Four-Post Garden Arbor photographed 15 years later. The homeowner originally applied a single application of a Cabot Heartwood oil, which gradually grayed out to the weathered look below. Finishing the Prowell products does not prolong their life or preserve their structural integrity.

Your decision to apply a finish should be based upon your visual preference only. To avoid finishes that are less than optimal, please follow the guidelines and suggested products at A Word About Finishing

garden arbors with Arch in Marin county, CA

#15-3
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WOOD ARBOR #15-3

Sausalito, CA
3″ Thick Truss. Keystone

The Original Garden Gate Arbor #15, from 1994. Overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
Truss thickness: 3″ x 3-1/2″W. With Keystone
An early keystone design that has since been modified. Both the gate and arbor with the same arching radius.
The mailbox appendage was designed and built by Prowell.

Wood Garden Gate Arbor with arch in Sausalito, CA

IN-PROGRESS

WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

R outing the mortises for the cross-slats.

shop progress photo building wood arbor 15-7aaPhoto credit: Ben Prowell

WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

C hiseling the dovetail mortise for the center cross-slat.

shop progress photo How to Build the Prowell Arbor #15-7bbPhoto credit: Ben Prowell

WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

Fitting the mail dovetail on the center cross-slat into the female mortise.

shop progress photo showing how to build a prowell wood arborPhoto credit: Ben Prowell

WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

Set up on Ben Prowell’s workbench, where the mortises were cut by hand with a lovely old Stanley #71 Router Plane.

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WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

The Stanley Router Plane. A lost art, single-handedly being revived.

Arch wood gate arbor, by prowell

WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

The mirrored trusses mortised with their flywheel pattern.

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WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

The cross-slats are given a stepped-haunch tenon.

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WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

Ben fashioning the inlay keystone with the Stanley Router Plane.

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WOOD GARDEN ARBOR #15–PROGRESS

Ben easing the edges with a Lee Veritas edge plane.

Ben Proell building garden arbor #15-7ddPhoto credit: Ben Prowell

PROBLEMS

This is what happens if you do not insist your installer read the install guides. Here, the mounting lags were ignored, and the arbor was simply seated onto the posts and that was that. But . . . in time the vines and climbers will exert enough persuasive torque to actually lift the entire arbor off the posts.

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READING MATERIAL

The Press Democrat —1998
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Taunton Press’ Home Makeover 2007
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