Cut two sheets of purebond pre finished plywood to size with an extra in each direction.
Shoji sliding door construction.
Here s how the door was built.
I just used the width that the wood comes in for the bottom and i cut it in half for the vertical frame pieces.
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Shoji hawaii has created a lovely collection of traditional and custom shoji screens doors and room dividers.
Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used.
Shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged especially in more rustic styles.
To construct this tracking system from scratch you will have to etch a 1 16 inch groove into the lower.
So what is a shoji and how is it constructed.
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We decided to use the purebond for our shoji door to the bathroom too faster than using wood framing pieces and going with a hardware free sliding door would mean more durability overall.
Our screens and doors are hand built using the finest woods and papers available.
Shoji panels are made of wooden frames with translucent white paper glued to a lattice structure.
Building the shoji doors here follows a detailed description of the process i used to make a set of shoji doors.
Shoji sliding door panels are attached using a shikii floor rail and a kamoi overhead beam.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
I used poplar wood because it is lightweight and more importantly cheap.
Cedar can be used for outdoor applications as well.
In many cases it consists of 4 doors that slide in a bottom rail at the floor and a top rail.
See our installations for examples.
Freshly milled cherry will darken to the color shown in a few months.
Above the top rail a non movable blending completes the project.
All wood species will vary somewhat in grain and color.
Figure out how large you want your wood frame to be.
While many of the shoji doors in this project had different over all dimensions the joinery dimensions were all similar the main differences being piece total length and spacing of the kumiko mortises in the rails and stiles.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
All shoji are built double sided with full 1 3 8 thick frames.
A shōji is a door window or room divider used in traditional japanese architecture consisting of translucent sheets on a lattice frame.
Wood samples below shown next to ebony door pulls for color comparison.
A shoji is the japanese word for a paper wall or door.