A lady from church who knows I build guitars recently asked if I would look at the doors for her Grandfather clock. She put the clock together from a kit years ago. The doors are both warped and will not shut. She said she tried several methods of using weighty objects to flatten the doors before she finished them. Nothing work and she eventually finished the doors and stuck them on the clock where they have been for years. She has kept the doors shut for all these years by tying a ribbon right around the clock. Anyway I have the doors know and am trying to figure out what to do with them. I thought before I get carried away I would see if anyone had some good suggestions for getting these things flat. Here are some pictures of the little door for the clock face.
You can see where I cut a few relief slots in the back of the door. I was going to cut the slots, fill them with glue and clamp the door so that the slots pull closed. I think I need bigger slots or more of them if this is going to work. However I decided not to cut anymore without seeing what you guys thought. Any suggestions here would be really appreciated.
Josh