CUSTOM WOOD ARCHING ARBOR #9

Dana Point, CA
As 3-1/2″ or 5-1/2″ widths

An unmistakable entryway, culminating with the Arbor #9-6 accompanied by the Gate Style #2

Arbor: 3″ thick x 5-1/2″ wide.

Dana Point, CA

Arbor style #9 was created as a versatile application for mounting directly onto columns and walls, as shown below.
But also, shown in many of the images below, mounting onto wood posts with, or without, Mounting Caps.

WoodRX: Chestnut Patina

San Mateo, California (Silicone Valley)
With mounting caps. No short extension posts.

Wood Garden Arbor #9-3 with Garden Gate #4, and Pony Panels style #4

San Mateo, California

San Mateo, California

Sometimes it’s nice to see a before photo. The transformation of an uneventful frontage, resulting in a private garden courtyard with a healthy dose of curb appeal

Monterey, California
W/ short extension posts and threaded rod. No mounting caps
As flush to posts, 3-½” posts only
3-½”T x 3-½”W

Prowell’s #9-2 Arbor, with 3-½” posts. Shown with Garden Gate Style #60..
*When mounting directly to surfaced 4×4 posts as shown below, the arbor thickness matches the 3-½” thickness x 3-½” width of the post. Hence +8% above the pricing table costs at the top of the page. The arbor mounts with threaded rod, which ships already set to the bottom of the arbor.

Pebble Beach golf, Carmel shopping, Monterey Aquarium, migrating whales, , keeling sailboats billowing on the bluest bay.
Meanwhile . . . the hinterland of the old ranchers holds tough to General Vallejo’s legacy of a Monterey no one remembers.

Monterey, California

Monterey, California

When mounting flush to the Gate posts, the bottom end-cuts arrive with a 1/8″ round-over radius. The site posts must be cut to a clean 90-degree, and the top end-cuts also be radiused to 1/8″ round-over. Why? Because the two assemblies may, or may not, expand and contract at varying degrees and the 1/8″ eased edges allows some forgiveness.

Wood Arbor #9 as a single-truss with a full insert center keystone. Mounting to walls and columns (with the use of the short post extensions shown), or mounting to existing site posts, without the mounting caps shown.

Palo Alto, CA

The original Arbor #9 in Palo Alto, CA. Mounted to stucco walls and wired for a light fixture. For mounting such fixtures, Prowell ships the arbor with concealed wiring drawn up from the bottom of the extension posts and out the bottom of the keystone, leaving plenty of wiring for the necessary connections on both ends. For such applications, add $175. On the right, our happy customers.

Greenbrae, CA (Marin County)
W/mounting caps and 4″ extension posts

With Arbor #9-5, we have 4″ -long extension posts between the arbor and the mounting caps, elevating the arbor itself off the caps. A single coated lag carries through the top of the arbor into the top of the post.

Greenbrae, CA (Marin County)

Wood Gate Arbor #9-5 accompanied by Gate style #115.

Walnut Creek, CA
W/mounting caps and keystone

Wood Arbor Design #9-4 and accompanying Garden Gate #60 flanked by a 3rd-party hog wire fence. Of all the gate designs, the #60 fits best with the full exposure of a 4″ wire grid fence.

Walnut Creek, CA

Orinda, CA
W/Mounting Caps and Keystone

Wood Gate Arbor #9-3 with keystone and mounting caps. Shown below with Gate style #20 and fence panel style #22. In the back ground, four-post Arbor #15.

IN-PROGRESS

A typical Keystone.

A good look at the full keystone. Mocked up in the shop with simulated 6×6 site posts.
Showing Arbor #9 without the 4″ extension posts–i.e. seating directly onto the mounting caps.

Ben making a few adjustments to a final mock-up.

Ben shown experimenting with building out a keystone by mortising the blank arbor truss, and fitted with relief inserts. An additional top piece is the last step, not shown below. In the end, we dismissed this approach. 

Laying out the top radius with a marking gauge.