In my ongoing bookcase saga, I've decided that the faceframe stiles will be fluted.
Ideally, I'd like them to be "stopped" flutes, that is the fluting end in a rounded routing prior to the physical end of the stile. I have two concerns with doing this:
- How do I consistently start & stop the fluting. Stopping isn't so much of a problem (I'll just carefully run the pieces to a line), but consistent starts initiated by dropping the frames on the router bit seems problematic. Can I drop them on prior to the start point and do a climb cut to the starting point?
- Given the above, how do I prevent/minimize burning in the (cherry) faceframes?
TIA.
~Mark.