Domino Shutters

[w802h]

I'm sure others have used the domino this way.  My customer needed 4 shutters repaired/replaced.  I couldn't commercially find a good match, so I built them myself instead of replacing everything on the house.  The domino worked well to cut the mortises for the slats quickly.  It took me longer to lay it out than cut.  My layout lines are about 1/8" in at 66 degrees to center on the 1" stock, referencing off the bottom of the machine.  I used a #6 on the wide setting on my DF500 to match and re-use the good slats.  I only needed 10 new slats for all 4 shutter so I put them in the same shutter. 

 

[Tyler Ernsberger]

Thats awesome.  I was thinking about doing the same thing.  Did you make a jig to help?

 

[w802h]

Thanks. No jig.  It took me a little while to figure out how far off the edge of the board to center the plunge and how to transfer the exact location - I think it was 11/16" back from the front of the mortise.  I used the best rotten shutters as a story pole.  So the cursor was at the intersection of the 1/8" line and the angled line.  The bottom of the domino registered on the angled line.  From the second shutters on I only transferred the two lines for actually lining up the domino instead of three, since I had already located the mortises where I wanted them.