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   SCFrankland | Aug 13, 2003 01:58am | #1

   Norm built a jig to make shutter doors for a teak bar.  The jig was very well explained and it was also part of a shop jigs epsoide.  The first link to the bar and the second is the jigs.

   http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct3.cgi?9905

   http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct3.cgi?0101

   Scott C. Frankland

   "This all could have been prevented if their parents had just used birth control"

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   forestgirl | Aug 14, 2003 07:50pm | #6

   Scott, I remember that episode, but did those slats go up and down (or open and close - "louvered") -- I thought they were stationary.  forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   lostarrow | Aug 13, 2003 04:31pm | #2

   Jerry-

   You can get the plans for the shutter jig from NYW, but give yourself and them time. I ordered the plans ,online, for Norm's router table on Aug.3. The plan arrived on the 12th. That's 9 days for a trip of about 175 miles. I could have drove up and back in one day. And there's a $4.95 S&H charge for a standard size envelope that could be mailed for $.37 . Oh well! the plan is readable.

   Be not afraid of going slowly.  Be afraid only of standing still.   chinese proverb
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   BG | Aug 14, 2003 02:35pm | #3

   lostarrow,

   I finished putting together the carcas of Norm's router table last night...unfortunately, I bought the plans two years ago.  I have modified the plans so it resembles the new style.  I do have one question, if I may, what material is used for the fense on the new design?  thanks

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   lostarrow | Aug 14, 2003 03:20pm | #4

   Glad to oblige. The plan calls for 3/4" MDF with high pressure laminate on face.Be not afraid of going slowly.  Be afraid only of standing still.   chinese proverb

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   BG | Aug 14, 2003 05:22pm | #5

   Lostarrow,

   Thanks.  The old plans called for ply....and smaller

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   forestgirl | Aug 14, 2003 08:01pm | #7

   Jerry, I just checked the NYW site, and someone else had asked about louvered shutters.  The response was:  "On NYW we have made fixed louvers for our Teak Bar Project # 9905. (Check Project Plans )"  There was a post here at Knots about a hard-to-read louvered shutter plan ages ago.  Wonder if it's the same plan?. . . . . AHHHHHHH -- I did a search! 

   Tonyd, the Fine Woodworking article was "Antebellum Shutters" by Ben Erickson. It appeared in issue # 53 (July/August 1985), which is now out of print. The article appears in a book collection, Woodshop Specialties.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   forestgirl | Aug 14, 2003 08:07pm | #8

   Here's some more:

   Shutters, Plantation - Woodworker's Journal, Sep/Oct 1997 Vol 21 No 5 pg 46 full plans (provided by Jim Barry)

   A thread with contributions from someone who made 30 shutters for his house:
   http://forums.taunton.com/tp-knots/messages?msg=6719.2

   If you want to find more, go to Advanced Seach and enter  shutters   -- leave the search at "From the beginning of time"

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)