Shutters Build Along
Furnished content.
(from WoodNet.net)


I'm making some simple frame and panel shutters to replace ones that rotted in only 5 years. Very disappointing; I'll never use white pine for something like this again. White pine used to last for decades but apparently this ain't your grandfather's white pine anymore. I'm using Utile/Sipo this time. Many of its properties are on par with mahogany, and the price is right at about half the cost. I bought three nice 5/4 boards, more than plenty for the 4 shutters I need to make. I'm using AZEK for the panels; one sheet of 3/8" will cover those needs.



Sipo planes easily, but can sometimes tear out the same as mahogany due to the interlocked grain.

I got all the stock planed and cut to width, then cut common parts to length on my RAS that has a length stop system on the bench the saw is mounted to. This was the first RAS I bought, about 40 years ago. I wouldn't want to be without it.


I plowed 3/8" deep dados in all the parts for the panels, and then cutstub tenonson the ends of the rails to fit into those dados, using my RAS with a dado stack and stop block.



I cut mortises for the loose tenons on my horizontal router table, in both the ends of the rails andmating ones in the stiles.



With the joinery complete, I test fit a frame together.



Time to make the panels to fit. More to follow.

John

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