[John Moorhead]

Folks -

Greetings! I haven't checked in, in quite a while - the "signal to noise"
ratio gets to be a bit much, and coming up with every possible permutation
of gutter words for the filters isn't my idea of fun...

That being said, I hope y'all will have me back and lend your advice toward
solving a problem.

I am making 30 notched sticks out of oak - 2 1/2" wide, 60" long and 1 1/8"
thick. All four edges (the long ones) have a 1/2" roundover - no
problem...

The hitch is that the ends of the sticks have a half-round profile (a radius
of 1 1/4") and then THAT radius needs a 1/2" roundover... I have my
roundover bit peeking through a "zero clearance" insert in my router fence,
but haven't figured out how to turn the sticks smoothly and consistently to
get a smooth roundover on the end radius. I will post some pictures of the
components over in abpw and hope that someone here can help me out.

I am wondering if I made some sort of jig that would pivot about the center
or something.....

Thanks in advance!

John Moorhead
Lakeport

[Tom Watson]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:27:51 GMT, "John Moorhead"
wrote:

Folks -

Greetings! I haven't checked in, in quite a while - the "signal to noise"
ratio gets to be a bit much, and coming up with every possible permutation
of gutter words for the filters isn't my idea of fun...

That being said, I hope y'all will have me back and lend your advice toward
solving a problem.

I am making 30 notched sticks out of oak - 2 1/2" wide, 60" long and 1 1/8"
thick. All four edges (the long ones) have a 1/2" roundover - no
problem...

The hitch is that the ends of the sticks have a half-round profile (a radius
of 1 1/4") and then THAT radius needs a 1/2" roundover... I have my
roundover bit peeking through a "zero clearance" insert in my router fence,
but haven't figured out how to turn the sticks smoothly and consistently to
get a smooth roundover on the end radius. I will post some pictures of the
components over in abpw and hope that someone here can help me out.

I am wondering if I made some sort of jig that would pivot about the center
or something.....

Thanks in advance!

John Moorhead
Lakeport



Can you make your roundover on the endgrain before ripping out the
pieces?

This would get you most of the way home.

The corner could be done by rotating the otherwise finished piece
against the fence, perhaps by using a starting pin, such as is used on
curved moldings made with a shaper.

Regards,

Tom Watson

tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/

[Morris Dovey]

John Moorhead (in )
said:

| I am making 30 notched sticks out of oak - 2 1/2" wide, 60" long
| and 1 1/8" thick. All four edges (the long ones) have a 1/2"
| roundover - no problem...
|
| The hitch is that the ends of the sticks have a half-round profile
| (a radius of 1 1/4") and then THAT radius needs a 1/2" roundover...
| I have my roundover bit peeking through a "zero clearance" insert
| in my router fence, but haven't figured out how to turn the sticks
| smoothly and consistently to get a smooth roundover on the end
| radius.

Why not chuck up a 1" round nose (ball end) cutter in the 'Bot, do all
the rounding on the top half of the end, then turn the workpiece over
and do the other half?

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto

[Nova]

John Moorhead wrote:

Folks -

Greetings! I haven't checked in, in quite a while - the "signal to noise"
ratio gets to be a bit much, and coming up with every possible permutation
of gutter words for the filters isn't my idea of fun...

That being said, I hope y'all will have me back and lend your advice toward
solving a problem.

I am making 30 notched sticks out of oak - 2 1/2" wide, 60" long and 1 1/8"
thick. All four edges (the long ones) have a 1/2" roundover - no
problem...

The hitch is that the ends of the sticks have a half-round profile (a radius
of 1 1/4") and then THAT radius needs a 1/2" roundover... I have my
roundover bit peeking through a "zero clearance" insert in my router fence,
but haven't figured out how to turn the sticks smoothly and consistently to
get a smooth roundover on the end radius. I will post some pictures of the
components over in abpw and hope that someone here can help me out.

I am wondering if I made some sort of jig that would pivot about the center
or something.....

Thanks in advance!

John Moorhead
Lakeport



How about using a pattern and a half round bit with a bearing such as
the Freud 82-514:

http://www.freudtools.com/woodworker...f_Round_1.html

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA