Don Hurley

I would like to cut louvers for shutters that are tapered like the old style shutters of long ago. Anyone have any hints on how to do this.
Thanks in advance

Don H.....

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bobj3

Hi Don

You just need the right router bit like the one below..

Architectural Case/Molding Router Bits
Part #7896
http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shops.../bt_mold2.html

OR
Part number P14-3564 " N "
http://pricecutter.com/product.asp?pn=P14-3552

I should note:::: If you have a planer you can make a quick jig to hold the stock under the knifes in the planer....

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Joe Lyddon

Norm of NYWS did some shutters a few years ago... don't remember if they were what you're looking for or not...

challagan

The show that Joe speaks of was on making a bunch of those shutters. If I remember right they were tapered but I can't tell in the photo:
http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct3.cgi?0602
He also shows the jig he made to cut the slots in the frames in the series that is currently showing on the DIY channel. It was a pretty cool jig!

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Don Hurley

Thanks Joe
Isaw that episode to . Thats where I got my idea from. But unlike Norm I don't have a friend of the show that supplies me with free high dollar molding machines.

HA HA
Thanks again though

Don Hurley

Bobj3
Took a look at bits and will investigate further.
Thanks
Don H.

bobj3

You'er Welcome Don

The Plantation Shutters air again today on the PBS station....

The bit will do the job the only thing you need to do is make the 3 jigs for drilling/stapling/mounting and making the frames to hold the shutters...the frames are the easy part...

The jigs are the hard part.....but if you watch Norm you will see how to make all them... good luck.........as you now they are not cheap shutters if you just went out and put out your bucks on the counter for them ,so making them is the way to go....
at 150.oo to 350.oo per set you will be money ahead when you make your own.

Don One more work around ,,,goto one of the many of the HomeDepot/Lowes 2nd hand wood stores and take a look at the premade wood sutters they have on hand, think about just taking the shutters parts out and use them in your Plantation Shutters , I have many door sutters in the raftters of my garage that I have got from garage sales and they would work....but it would take a bit of work to take them down to parts only....but it would be worth it in the long run..if I wanted to make some for my house...


Bj

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Joe Lyddon

Don,

There is always more than one way to skin a cat... "high dollar molding machines".

OK, I'm trying visualize the 'molding' you're talking about. Did Norm use some fancy molding?

Think "out of the box".
What can you do with a table saw?
Then, what can you do with a router round-over, etc.?
Maybe a little more table saw...
In other words, you do what you have to do to get what you want... step by step... It might take you ten times as long as Norm did it, but you're not paying more to do it in equipment... are you?

Start with a profile of what you want... to meet what Norm did... go from there!

If Norm didn't do it, you do it anyway because that's what you want to do.

Combine methods as required...

"Just do it"... as Perot used to say. (and I think he was right, now)

Just a few thoughts on the subject... don't give-up on it.

Go for it!

Take care.

Don Hurley

Thanks guys for all the encouragement. I'll have a go at it.

Thanks again
Don H...

hal

Hi Don,
I saw your post about shutters, I am currently remodeling a house that we bought and the kitchen has a huge bay window that has plantations shutters. My wife and I love them. They were custom built so I won't even guess at the price, but unless you have some very deep pockets--build them yourself.

I never throw away a woodworking magazine and I knew I had saved an article on building shutters so this afternoon I dug it out. American Woodworker, June 1997, pages 68 thru 72, auther Robert Kempinski. Go to American Woodworker and ask for that back issue. I think they get $5.00 for back issues, if they no longer have an issue they will reproduce those pages for you. If I had a scaner and knew how to use it I woud do it myself. I told my wife I like to build a set of shutter for the living room bay window and she said, that is so much work. Well after remodeling the the house and bringing it up to date, shutters would be a breeze. If you stop and really look at them they a pretty simple.

I have seen the show that Joe Lyddon refered to but I think the shutters Norm built the slats were fixed. The ones in the article open and close. Some one else mentioned a router bit to make the taper in the slats. I remember seeing such a bit in some ones catalog but I don't remember whose catalog. Actully Kempinski cut the tapers on his slates on the table saw then took a light cut with a hand plane to get rid of the saw marks and finished the edges with a round over bit.