Hey, MeanJoe, thanks for the pics; hope it wasn’t too much trouble. That is some beautiful wood (and also some beautiful doggie). I’m Googling around trying to find what that hinge looks like and how it works–it must be a monster to hold up all that weight.
Wasn’t too much trouble at all, glad you were able to see them. My entire first floor’s trim and doors are tiger oak (quarter sawn oak) and even though we’ve been in the house almost 5 months, I still find myself admiring it and touching it all the time.
This door is pretty massive. I do not know if “scissor hinge” is the actual term for this type of mechanism. It is what the craftsman called it when I had him come in to do an adjustment on the door (it was slightly off-level and lightly making contact with the floor). I should have taken pictures while all the trim was removed and you could see into the wall-space.
P.S. - It took me a minute to figure out what you meant by doggie as I didn’t think our dogs got into the photo of the door. I see now that I still have some old photos on Flickr. The dog is Mishka, he passed a few years ago at 14. He was probably 3 in that photo. The house picture is my former home, built somewhere around 1890. As you can see, a tree fell and went boom! Haha We sold that house this summer and bought the place we live now with all the pocket doors. I’ll upload a photo to Flickr of the new house, just slightly larger. rolls eyes
P.S.S. - Here you go: New Money Pit
MeanJoe
^ Verrrrrrrry nice! ::big thumbs-up smilie:: Those half-round brick exterior features are tres classy!
(Have we derailed the thread enough, ya think? 
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What **Parenchyma ** won’t do, I will! (This is in fact what I do for a living, so PM me if you like.)
I like the pocket-door idea in general, and in fact for a triple-decker of that vintage, a pocket door between those two rooms was very common. I used to live in an apartment like that that did have a pocket door. What this suggests to me is that instead of getting a salvage door and converting it, maybe you can find some salvage pocket doors, with their original hardware, of a style perfectly suited to your apartment.
My mother-in-law installed new pocket doors in her house, and as someone mentioned above, they can go into a relatively narrow wall. But the effect of that is a bit unfortunate – the walls are terribly flimsy.
Yeah, you want an experienced carpenter to do the install. Everything has to be level and plumb, and the trim-out and hardware install is not for the inexperienced.
One thing you might consider is barn-style doors on rails. These aren’t super practical for noise or privacy, but they are very cool looking and don’t require any modifications to the wall. If you have super-cool looking doors, you get to see them even when they are open!
It’s a Prescott Trackless Door Hanger. Edwin Prescott invented it in the 1880s. It’s rare, but not unheard of, to find a functional one these days.
Wow, thanks Gus! I’m off to Google that and learn all I can! In addition to the pocket door shown in the photos, I have a second pocket door that is significantly smaller in width that also uses the same type of hinge. So, I guess that makes me double rare but not unheard of!
Hey, that’s a cool mechanism, (I had no idea what a scissor hinge was!)
Gus, you the MAN! That is just fascinating! Kudos!
(Motorgirl, are you still there? We didn’t mean to hijack the thread; we’re sorry.) 