How to build a louvered door?

You can simply use an angled miger gague on your TS, with a box joint
jig (long board screwed to the gague with a pin) to cut the slots in
your side pieces (stiles?)- with a dado head set to the thickness of
your louvers. Make sure the boards that you are slotting have
additional length to them, as it gets kinda hairy trying to cut the
last four or so slots without the extra length. Measure the length of
that slot (from longest to longest), plane your louvers to the
thickness of your slots & rip the edges of the louvers so the edges of
the louvers are angled to match the front of the frame. You could do
the same with a router table & a box joint jig i would imagine, though
Ihave not done it that way. Also, the RAS could be used with a dado
head & the RAS head turned to cut your appropriate angle. Make sure you
engineer a stop system so the slots are the same distance apart.
Remember, the larger the louvers (in width) and the greater the angle
of the louver the less slots you have to make. HTHs
Phil

Perfect job for the RAS!

R


"Toller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I am building a 8' high by 4' wide book case. The only thing unusual about
>it is that the bottom 2.5' will house a wall mounted air conditioner. I
>want to build a louvered door (2.5' x 4' wide) to hide the AC.
> Is there a good reference on how to build louvers? I imagine it is simply
> a matter of routing diagonal slots for them, but it would be nice to learn
> from someone elses mistakes...
> Thanks.
>

Toller wrote:
>
> Is there a good reference on how to build louvers?
>

Check NYW.

Norm built a louver jig a few years ago.

Lew

Norm's version http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct3.cgi?9905
(you will need the video to understand the jig construction)

or

http://www.atlanticmach.com/standard/groover.html



Toller wrote:

> I am building a 8' high by 4' wide book case. The only thing unusual about
> it is that the bottom 2.5' will house a wall mounted air conditioner. I
> want to build a louvered door (2.5' x 4' wide) to hide the AC.
> Is there a good reference on how to build louvers? I imagine it is simply a
> matter of routing diagonal slots for them, but it would be nice to learn
> from someone elses mistakes...
> Thanks.
>
>

In article <[email protected]>, "Toller" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I am building a 8' high by 4' wide book case. The only thing unusual about
> it is that the bottom 2.5' will house a wall mounted air conditioner. I
> want to build a louvered door (2.5' x 4' wide) to hide the AC.
> Is there a good reference on how to build louvers? I imagine it is simply a
> matter of routing diagonal slots for them, but it would be nice to learn
> from someone elses mistakes...
> Thanks.

Moveable louvres, Toller?
How big did you want the slats to be?

I believe one of the earlier issues of Woodsmith (Issue #37 maybe)
featured a louver jig as well.
Post some pics when your done and best of luck !

Lenny

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:04:34 GMT, "Toller" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I am building a 8' high by 4' wide book case. The only thing unusual about
>it is that the bottom 2.5' will house a wall mounted air conditioner. I
>want to build a louvered door (2.5' x 4' wide) to hide the AC.
>Is there a good reference on how to build louvers? I imagine it is simply a
>matter of routing diagonal slots for them, but it would be nice to learn
>from someone elses mistakes...
>Thanks.
>

I believe that Nahm demonstrated this once on a show. I am not a big
Nahmite, so I can't tell what the project was or how long ago. I also don't
know how useful his site is, but maybe there is something there that you can
use.

SteveP


"Toller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>I am building a 8' high by 4' wide book case. The only thing unusual about
>it is that the bottom 2.5' will house a wall mounted air conditioner. I
>want to build a louvered door (2.5' x 4' wide) to hide the AC.
> Is there a good reference on how to build louvers? I imagine it is simply
> a matter of routing diagonal slots for them, but it would be nice to learn
> from someone elses mistakes...
> Thanks.
>