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How can I safely make a 1/4 round moulding piece
arw01
>I need to make 4 pieces about 18" long of a corner round moulding, that would be 3/8" wide on the wide side.
My tablesaw 45 is not in alignment, and a piece this small would get hung up in the throat plate because of the blade tilt width of opening.
I do have a chamfer router bit from a set. From memory I recall a fellow that made a block that trapped the work piece between this block and the bit to make small pieces.
Thanks
Alan
Re: How can I safely make a 1/4 round moulding pie
bill tindal, E.TN
>I make 3/8"-1/4 round by putting a 1/4 round on a 3/8" board with a 3/8" round over bit and then sawing 3/8" off the edge of said board to yield the 1/4 round piece. I have made hundreds of feet of this kind of molding using this approach.
Same here
George@Colonel's Workshop-Havertown PA
>And its fast and safe, besides.
George
Re: How can I safely make a 1/4 round moulding pie
arw01
>Do you them rip it down the middle to make it a quarter instead of a half?
Having trouble visualizing the 3/8" cut. I can see why the 3/8" board with a bull nose on the front (you do both sides? would give you a nice 1/2 piece. Then going down the middle of that should get you quarters correct?
Alan
Re: How can I safely make a 1/4 round moulding pie
Alan S
>No, he does not mean a bullnose. A 3/8" roundover is 3/8" in radius (3/4" diameter) so it is making a quarter round on the edge of the board. The board is large enough to handle safely as you rip off the finished molding.
You would lose much of the advantage of the method if you were to use 3/4" stock, cut a bullnose, rip off the half round, and then try to split it. Aside from the inconvenience and danger of ripping such a narrow piece, you would lose the kerf, so at least one of the pieces could not be a full quarter round.
Alan
Re: How can I safely make a 1/4 round moulding pie
Gene Gauss
>I've made a fair amout of red oak 1/4" quarter round by first profiling both corners of the length of a piece 5/4, and then setting the fence on the table saw at 1/4" and the depth of cut at 1/4" also. Two rip cuts for each piece and your done. Warnings: Use a zero clearance insert, be sure your saw is adjusted to not fire the released piece of quarter round back out the infeed direction, and stand aside anyway. Gene Gauss
Re: How can I safely make a 1/4 round moulding pie
arw01
>Ok so I'm a little dense, I could not make any sense of the directions until I dried to draw it to explain why I didn't understand it. NOW I get it. It would be quite easy to make.
Alan