re: Some people say I'm nuts...

Really nice door Brian , that’s quite a project that you took on . I built a louvered door once , used 2×4 s to make the main frame and 1×2 s to make the louvers . Had 2 dowel pins in each side of the louvers , they went right in on the hinged side. It took me hrs to get all the pins lined up on the other side. I would get 6 in and have to pick up just 1 thousand of an inch for number 7 and 3 of the 6 would fall back out ! I finally got that thing together . never built another one .