Ideas to create round on slender profile

Mar 28, 2006 9 Replies
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I am going to make a slender (1 inch wide, 3/4 inch thick) frame for a clock. I have a couple of ineloquent ways to make the 1 inch round, but I am surprised at how tough this seems to be on the surface. I would like to do it on the router table, but I would like to use the bottom (flat) surface for reference. I would have to have an overhead router or a multi-router for that (I think). Maybe some of you can shake this out for me. Here is the sketch showing the round cross section.



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anyone?



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Only the standard ones. You bullnose and rip. May require a bit of extra thickness on the outfeed to support it properly, but 3M 77 and paper's cheap, if you don't want to use your jointer. If you don't have a bullnose, quarter round twice.

Overhead router still spins the bit vertically. No real gain. You'd need a horizontal router....

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a 'hands on' kind of hobby, eh? I could get all wound up over that. The key is to have the time? On the face of it, that hobby could drive me cuckoo.

..somebody stop me...

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bullnose router bit:

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pictures should give you a couple of ideas to do it safely in a wider piece, then ripping to dimension.

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Way too many hours free time here. You need a hobby. Try woodworking.

P.S. the rout first, cut last on a wide board is of course the right approach.

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The Swingman entity posted thusly:

Someone give him an escapement, or he'll just keep tocking and tocking and ...

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I was all geared up to say *precisely* the same thing, but stopped when I saw your post. Since, I've only been right on it about twice a day.

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