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Default How should I make this curve?

On Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 9:36:09 AM UTC-5, Greg Guarino wrote:
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It will be 34.5" long, with a 32" radius according to Sketchup. I imagine some of you might do it with a band saw and a spindle sander, but that's not an option for me.

I have done pattern routing in the past, with success. But I wonder if with this large a curve it might be easier to whip up a jig with a pivot point 34" from the router bit. I would of course roughly cut out the shape with a sabre saw before routing in either case.

Advice?

Are you cutting an opening or a table top? How this is approached will be very different, depending on the form. The best thing is the old two nail and a string trick to make the pattern, once you have that refined then transfer, saw and pattern rout. All that assuming you are working on a table top.