12/10/2011 update – Okay, so this is bad… Looking thru this thread, I realized this project has taken nearly a year to complete. So, our goal here, is to complete this project in under a year, hopefully before Christmas. Taking holidays into account, there’s 15 days remaining…
Last update was in March, just prior to an assignment change at work, which made shop time a thing of the past. Shop time from March til early October involved an occasional ‘open the door & ‘sniff’’, …
Tripping across a 24” Delta scroll saw back in October really got me motivated to get the shutter project completed.
When we left off in March, we had a successful dry fit in the window. After that the shutters were broken down into component parts again awaiting stain, and left until a couple weeks ago.
Staining was a slow, tedious process and took nearly 8 hours to complete. The slats below are stained ready for polyurethane:
Polyurethane was completed last weekend - 12/3/2011. Slats below are drying in the rack.
Polyurethane complete.
“Time for a little assem-bell-y”… Slat assemblies completed.
First dry-fit since stain & polyurethane. Checking that the slats can still move freely.
Dry Fit showed that the tolerances between shutter pins, and holes in the stiles were too tight. Moving each one by hand individually was easy, but by adjustment rod, not so… Redrilling the holes to clean out stain & poly helped somewhat, but, it’s still not what they need. Had to quit to head to the store for drill bits missing from the collection. Enlarging the holes to allow easier movement is today’s exercise. Hopefully, we can begin the glue-up as well.
‘til later…