Making louvers with a domino?

[Toller]

Neighbor wants me to make some louvers.  Well, more accurately, wife wants me to make louvers for neighbor.
Google has several links to how to do it with a Domino, but none of the links work.
Any suggestions?  I mean, other then telling wife "no".

 

[waho6o9]

HTH

Thanks Brice Burrell.

 

[Toller]

Anything more explicit?  That shows how to index, but not what holds the domino in the right place, or how to start.

 

[ChuckM]

The method shown in the video can only be used with the pin-based DF500.

Do you have a pin- or an edge-stop-dog- (paddle) domino joiner?

 

[waho6o9]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Making+louvers+with+Festool+Domino&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images

 

[Svar]

The method shown in the video can only be used with the pin-based DF500.

You can always attach Domino to a piece of ply with any indexing pins, blocks, or stops that you like. Such that the machine straddles the workpiece at an angle and indexes from the previous mortise.

 

[ear3]

Here's a demonstration of concept [member=15585]Svar[/member] mentioned, though the jig is for a ladder:https://www.festoolownersgroup.com/festool-jigs-tool-enhancements/domino-ladder-jig

But the same indexing principle could be applied to doing a louver, though you would have to do first few mortises with a separate setup/jig.

Last time I had to do shutters I went with a router using a template designed and executed with the shaper origin:
https://community.shapertools.com/t/shutter-jig/3198

But obviously this involves a slightly different equipment setup

 

[ChuckM]

Snip.

, though you would have to do first few mortises with a separate setup/jig.

My approach was to mark out the first three mortises (using a sliding bevel) and milled them with the same DF500 cradle louvre jig. Once those were cut, a pin was used to register the jig with the third mortise and the following mortises.

The cradle jig concept which can be used to make a louvre jig (runners screwed to the underside), a ladder jig (similar to the louvre jig without the pin), and others is shown here (see post #1):https://www.festoolownersgroup.com/...ines-mortising-technique/msg584706/#msg584706

The cradle is the foundation to lots of other angled joinery applications such as ladders, intersecting lines mortising, etc. It overcomes the design limitation that the joiner's fence can't rotate to an angle.

Someone good at 3D printing can make the cradles with ease (and sell them!). Aluminum is another option.