Still haven’t fitted the wood screws through the reinforcing plates on the outer pillar, must do that tomorrow!
I fitted up the inner pillar today, this really took all day as I had to make several trial fittings with the boot doors in place, This necessitated drilling the hinge mounting holes clear for 2BA temporary screws, then rehanging the doors. Hopefully a good fit will be the final result.
I made up a couple of blocks of Iroko as distance pieces and to repair a missing piece of the perimeter rail before screwing and gluing the pillar into place. I need to make up another distance piece tomorrow but otherwise the next step is to make the small pieces of wood that the door abuts on the pillar.