So we were pricing up exterior shutters for our NC farm house. I did some looking around the web but the prices were crazy, and the shutters on offer were not architecturally sympathetic.
Enter the Lowrider2ā¦
After designing in VCarve Pro, It cut like a champ with a Whiteside 1/4" bit. 1-1/2 inch slats, 1-1/2 inch spacing. Awesome.
I ran 2 programs per stile- they are 75" in length. These are douglas fir, 1/10" incremental cut depth, 1/2" for the slats, 1" for the mortices for the rails. About 40 minutes per stile. The mortices are 40 degrees from horizontal, so would let more of the winter sun in if closed.
Thanks Ryan- the Lowrider2 made the build easy, but the 200+ slats were insane as my round-over bit on the table top router kept chewing them up. This is definitely a money maker for someone out there. I spent $100 on wood for 2 pairs of shutters. Millworks were charging $600-1500 per pair (without the historical touches).
There was a New Yankee Workshop where Norm made shutters like these (but much smaller, for a furniture project). It looked daunting. Iām very impressed.
My dad finally retired his new Yankee workshop coffee mug. He got it from Norm about 40 years ago. Norm was doing a talk to a bunch of ag teachers at Ohio state. Dad said the cup was starting to get grooves on the bottom from his spoon.
