Panels and rails for both doors
 
Panels and rails for both doors

These are the panels rough cut and hand planed to size and thickness. If you enlarge the picture you will see that all the end grain runs vertically, meaning that the boards are quartered stock. All of the wood for these doors is quartered, and should be for all doors, which means that the wood swells and shrinks in thickness and very little in width to provide maximum tightness throughout the seasons. All 17th & 18th century joiners and cabinetmakers were trained to make framing material like this. Wide panel material wants to be quartered or riven or cut close to the center of the tree to get the maximum of vertical grain for the above reasons stated; and that applies for architectural parts inside and outside, and furniture, all the time. That it did not always happen is for various reasons, but not that they didn't know better. >