Talkin, talkin, talkin. Ya, you've made it clear: Left hates to be separated from the Right. He's there--at Tim and Jenny's--awaiting Left's soon arrival. OK, Left, so calm down and don't get your lower hinge stuck in a jamb!
"So, what are we waiting for," you ask? OK. You probably weren't paying too much attention at the time--probably one of those sedation issues associated with surgery. Right. You probably had about the same challenges structurally as Right. Pullin you apart and finding as I did with Right that you were similarly dismembered discovered pretty much the same stuff. Your center mullion was split into two separate pieces and impregnated with gunky stuff and bad glue, too. A lot of careful cleaning and sanding and proper, careful aligning and gluing "put this Humpty Dumpty together again." The light frame (mullion) was then reunited with the door frame and the sanding of the larger door frame with the mullion in place finally could begin in earnest.
But there was a hitch. I missed telling ya in passing. Carefully pulling the light out of the mullion frame was a different story with you than with Right. I'm going to guess your leaded light was installed right after a mid-week lunch when the craftsman was half asleep. He probably used HALF the tube of latex rubber cement to glue the light in place in the mullion. Ugh. What a mess! And I'm supposed to carefully remove your light! Yup, thanks but no thanks. I worked sweating bullets trying to get your light out...carefully, oh so carefully. Round and round the perimeter. Tug a little here; cut a little there; tug a little more here. Then---SNAP! The unwanted happened. One of the cut-glass leaded-in panes had broken. I hate that!!! But then of course I know you do too.
Finally, with much more persuading the light came free, but the one broken lead glass pane was oh so painfully obvious. Off to the Glass Shop for measurements, estimates, and fabrication....and...and...waiting.
In the meantime the sanding is done. The gluing is done. The staining and matching is done. Oh, you handsome French guy you! Just like Right.
So we're waiting on the little teency piece of cut glass to fit back into your light. Then we can replace it in the mullion, frame it, and do the all the LAST MINUTE THINGS.
Soon I hope--and I know you do too.
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