Thank you Christy Leigh. Did you use dowels or biscuts to connect the side stiles to the bottom and top rail? What kind of fancy tools were necessary? Also, did you fill the unused pre -routed grooves for the louver slats in the side stiles? (where the side style butts up against the top or bottom rail) If so, what did you use?
By the way, the pictures were great to see what these things can do! Nice work!!!
Thank you for your help!
Oh.. Oh... now you are asking me to remember details from about 9 years ago and when the subject of memory comes up I usually claim about a 10 min span
I assume you mean the set I had to custom make because the standard set in the first picture used supplied dowels.
As for filling the un-used pre-routed holes in the side stiles if I remember correctly even the custom set would have had a 'top' or 'bottom' that would not have a continued pre-routed hole to show, (for standard assembly) so for either the top or bottom of each set it was a non-issue.... and a complete non-issue if you do not change the standard length of the side stiles at all and just put it together if you were lucky enough to need the exact vertical length supplied. I was not. For the 'top' or 'bottom' that I had to cut into 'mid piece' to leave an exposed 'half hole' I believe I did a crude wood putty fill that would only be seen when the door was open and you were - looking for it. Or..... depending on what flavor (left or right) side stiles I had left to work with I may have hidden a 'half hole' on the top front where you would have to look up to see it above the first slanted slat. That's the issue of juggling the side pieces I had to work with as to which place to hide the 'half hole' created by cutting into the 'middle' of a pre-routed side stile.
For the custom second picture set as you can see I reversed the side to top piece length relationship and construction so I couldn't use the supplied dowel setup and I did use a small vertical dowel that I made in addition to glue.
Besides the usual hand tools I have a stand mounted Router/Shaper, Drill Press, Band Saw, and Circular Saw.
Edit....... and probably my most used tool - a 4" Belt Sander simply flipped over, stuffed into a weighted cardboard box, trigger secured ON, and dust output connected to a vacuum. I used that for a planer, shaper, and every other imaginable thing for hundreds of board feet of work over the years
