CUSTOM WOOD DRIVEWAY GATES #220

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The modern elements of joinery and woodcarving 

Kauai, Hawaii (Noho Kai Gated Community)
Prowell’s Driveway Gate #220, designed as one pair of entry and one identical pair of exit gates to a gated community.

Kauai, Hawaii

13′ 4″ overall width x 53″ height. Featuring invisibly embedded stainless steel frames.

Photo credits: Elisia Lisa Press

Kauai, Hawaii

Showing the entry and egress gates, flanked by the stone columns with lighted insert panels. Photo credits: Elisia Lisa Press

Kauai, Hawaii

The column inserts are lighted and fitted with blue glass backing.

Kauai, Hawaii

Showing the continuation carving. The primary reeds are 3″ thick, several of which have continuation carvings at the tips. The secondary reeds are only 2-¼” thick.

Think Hawaii. The natural grasses and lush foliage of reeds and tropical palms and the solution, naturally, was Driveway Gate style #220.

Two of the four accompanying column insets, backed by blue art glass and LED lighted flat panels. Some day, we’ll hopefully receive evening photos that show these panels when lighted.

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

Know the fundamentals of the historically known joinery techniques by the time you’re twenty. Expand on them throughout that decade and when you’re thirty, Ben’s age in this photo, you have a repertoire of innovations–personal discoveries. At your disposal and all of them clamoring to be brought off the bench, to be called upon for those pieces of work where the fundamentals are just not good enough.

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

Ben contemplating the next step.

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

The embedded frame seated in it’s dado, with the mirrored half ready to laminate over the frame for the full 3″ thickness.  Showing the hingeplates, to which the hinges will ultimately be welded on site. 

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

For the sake of economy, there were only three templates to create the various arcs. Their settings within the general design was a matter of rotating each piece to its final placement.

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

Creating the shadowlines with chisels and drawknives.

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

Carving the continuation reliefs. 

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

The completed patterns themselves are assembled and set into the embedded frame as inserts.

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

Scribing a fit. When finish carpenters install a cabinet to a wavy wall, they’ll use a compass to mirror the contours of the wall onto the cabinet trim. Another means is a scribing board, shown below. One edge holds a pencil lead seated into a cove and taped such that it is perfectly aligned to the edge of the chamfered board.

Photo Credits: © Ben Prowell 2018

A  typical column insert flanking the gates.  

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