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Several years ago, Norm Abrams of the New Yankee workshop did an episode onmaking a jig for louvered door. Not sure if you can find it on their website, but that is the only time I have ever run across snything with Louvered doors.
I've never made louvered doors, but it seems very similar to stair balusters.
Cut one oversized board with your groves for the louvers, you can do more than one door worth at a time.
Be mindful that you'll need opposite groves for the left and right sides of doors.
Cut the rabbet (or dado) in the door to accept the grooved piece.
Cut a grooved piece out of the larger board for each side, trim them to length to match each other.
Glue them into the groove behind the door.
I just picked up an older Taunton book that tells very detailed how to make louvered shutters.
The book is "Windows & Skylights (Fine Homebuilding Builder's Library)" ISBN 1-56158-208-5
I got the book used from Thriftbooks.com for $0.76 + 3.44 s&h
Usually Taunton FHB and FWW books are just compilations of past articles so you may also try checking the FIne Homebuilding archives, which would require you to sign up for a four day trial membership.
As another idea, I recall seeing a grilled door panel in a more recent edition of Fine Woodworking [FWW #211 April 2010 pg. 52] which Christian Becksvoort routed halfway through the solid wood door panel using a 1/2" or so half-round bit and a router trammel stepped maybe 1-1/2" per pass. Then he flipped over it over and (not rotated) routed halfway through on the trammel again. The result was an awesome looking arched diamond/teardrop grille pattern. Here's the link to that article: http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/24409/4-ways-to-make-panels-pop
Hope that helps some
Good luck
DC
If this is for computer equipment I would make the cabinet with a positive air pressure to keep out dust and dirt.
If you put a small fan sucking in air through a filter down low and out high it will keep the computer equipment cool and a lot more dust free.
Just a thought.
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