My client is mounting a 70" TV outside under roof. We get to build a cabinet for it and there are some light sconces not to far away on either side. The cab will be a Cypress frame and a pair of tambour doors closing in the middle and moving horizontally. I'm thinking that we will cut spiral dado's in top and bottom plates. Our engineering shows if we use 1/2" wide dado and the tambours are 3/8" thick and 3/4" wide they will work with the smallest radius we have. I may increase the dado to 3/4 and the tambour to 1/2". Question is: Has anyone ever done custom tambour doors similar to this? If so, how did it work and what "surprises" did you get?
I'd hate to build the whole thing and find out it kept wanting to bind or rack.
I know that it is not super security but the client has a very good security system and is doing this medium protection so anyone trying to get in will trigger the alarm.