Popular Woodworking 2006-04 № 154, страница 55

A traditional muntin assembly is built by first milling T-shaped strips and then carefully cutting half-lap joinery to allow the pieces to nest together (right). The assembly is then installed in mortises formed in the door frame (above), making the muntin assembly a permanent part of the door assembly.

With Glen's method (shown below) the legs of the Ts are first glued horizontally across the door, resting in the rabbets in the frame pieces. Next, the T crossbar pieces are glued into position vertically in the door, across the first horizontal pieces. Finally the remaining leg and crossbar pieces are fit between the

pieces already in place and then glued to those pieces.

This process provides a true divided-light door, but requires only strips that can easily be milled by any woodworker and works more like a jigsaw puzzle than a complicated joinery process.

Thank you for the idea, Glen! PW

Above, Glen is placing one of the leg sections of a muntin in place on the already installed crossbar section. At top left you can see an assembled T section.

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