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Need help making a molding with hand tools

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Need help making a molding with hand tools

Wendell @ Murphy, TX

>I am trying to copy a edge treatment from one of the coffe tables we have in our living room (drawing below). It is very simple, just a rabbet and bead. If I were using power tools, I would rabbet the board then use a beading router bit in the rabbeted area. How do I do the same thing with hand tools? The rabbet I can do with my #46, but the bead aludes me. In case it matters, the bead has a 1/4" radius. Is there a specific wooden moulding plane to do this type of beading or would an appropriate sized round plane do the trick? Is there a good resource on the web or in print that has pictures of the different type molding planes that were produced?

Wendell


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Re: Need help making a molding with hand tools

Alan Hamilton

>Wendell,

That particular profile is a combination of an ovolo and the rabbet that you'll have no trouble with. The ovolo is the quarter-round with the two straight parts. If you have thousands of feet to do you might want to search for an ovolo plane. If you need to do relatively little of it I think a scratch stock would work just fine.

Alan

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I would

jimreed@marietta

>Use my #45 with a 1/8" plow to make a series of grooves. These would form the shoulders of rabbets, which could be cut with the #46. Roundover looks like a #2 or #4 hollow. Good luck.

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Re: I can make them

Chad Boehlke

>A matter of fact I am working on some new wooden moulding planes right now. I was looking into the woodworking tool market and will make a few moulder for woodworkers. I build woodworking planes. That shape is not that hard to make. If you want more info contact me at email@woodworkingplanes.com

(I am working on a new web site with moulders as we speak) Chad

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