Dean H. wrote:
| I need two for an upcoming new home. The custom window company
| wants $11,000 for two smallish windows. Tempting to tool up and
| tackle this one myself. Just the kind of mess I'd get myself in the
| middle of.
|
| Thoughts?
From the hip: I have a CNC router that can precision machine
oval/elliptical (inside and/or outside) templates that you can use
with either a freehand router or table-mounted router for obscenely
less than that. Contact me directly if I can be of help...
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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/
"Dean H." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I need two for an upcoming new home. The custom window company wants
>$11,000 for two smallish windows. Tempting to tool up and tackle this one
>myself. Just the kind of mess I'd get myself in the middle of.
>
> Thoughts?
>
Are there moldings involved?
If so, you will need some kind of molding machine and cutters. Not to
mention a good bandsaw.
Dean H. wrote:
> I need two for an upcoming new home. The custom window company wants $11,000
> for two smallish windows. Tempting to tool up and tackle this one myself.
> Just the kind of mess I'd get myself in the middle of.
>
> Thoughts?
First thought is that surely there is _something_ standard from one of
the major manufacturers that would suit?
Second is, sure you could build a standard casement window assuming you
have a shaper or a router table w/ good router and the other necessary
stuff to make the stock from like a bandsaw would be good for cutting
the oval, etc. You can buy the window sash cutter sets for a couple
hundred dollars or thereabouts, depending on how high quality you want
to go.
As for the complexity, depends on just how elaborate you're talking and
what your experience level/skill is. Then you have to consider the
glazing -- for a new home you really don't want to use simply a single
pane these days, in all likelihood, so you'll be back to having the
double-pane made and that's probably not going to be cheap.
I don't recall the title, but Taunton Press published a book on window
and door construction not terribly long ago. I don't have it but the
flyer made it look pretty good.
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Morris Dovey wrote:
> Dean H. wrote:
> | I need two for an upcoming new home. The custom window company
> | wants $11,000 for two smallish windows. Tempting to tool up and
> | tackle this one myself. Just the kind of mess I'd get myself in the
> | middle of.
> |
> | Thoughts?
>
> From the hip: I have a CNC router that can precision machine
> oval/elliptical (inside and/or outside) templates that you can use
> with either a freehand router or table-mounted router for obscenely
> less than that. Contact me directly if I can be of help...
Kewl idea, Morris. That would ease the burden significantly.
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