Stopped flute - Neander way

A router with a coping bit? Pretty standard stuff.

nautilus wrote:

Perhaps I'm not fully understanding what you intend to do, but my vision of a flute along the long axis of a leg could be done with a plunge router and a fence, using a fluting bit, couldn't it??

nautilus wrote:

Thanks for the reponses! And sorry for my bad english.. it's hard to explain!

A router would do the job for sure! But I wanted to do it with hand tools, as I don't have power tools, mainly because I enjoy to work the old fashion way. The "stopped flute" runs across the long side as you stated, but NOT all the way (typically, those kind of legs has 3 flutes on each side). For examlpe, in the 10 inches leg (3in x 3in perfectly square), the flutes runs from 2 to 9, leaving one inch "untouched" on each side. This tiny inch of wood is the one that complicates the things, as I can't run a regular hand plane (with a round bottom), from the beginning until the end, because the sole can dig deeper on the surface.

But hey.. now that you said that, maybe a router plane is what I need... altoguth, I don't either have one (so it might be a good project itself also).

Thanks again! Mariano

Just in case, here I'm trying to "draw" the stopped flute:

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Hope it adds something to the descriptions!

Thanks a bunch! Nautilus

Your round bottom plane should do the job. Attach the fence as if you were going to do a full length flute. Start the plane just short of the desired end of a flute and stop planing just past the middle of the flute. Make the second pass by starting a little closer to the desired flute end point and finishing a little shorter than the first pass. Keep making each successive pass starting a little closer to the desired end point of the flute and stopping a little shorter than the previous pass until you have that half of the flute complete. Readjust the fence and finish the other half of the flute the same way. Then clean up the ends with a gouge if necessary.

I hope this helps.

Art