Curved Doors; Raised panel & Six light glass #9: Inside curved panels

Nice! I’d like to say more, but I just can’t say anything else but “nice!” ;)

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I looked at your divided-light post first and wondered how you achieved the concave raised panels, so I was happy to see that you explained it. The idea of placing the curved panel between the table and the router bit scares me a little. We rigged up a horizontal table to use a vertical raised panel bit (pretty miserable compared to your Woodhaven—can you hear a little envy here?) but we’ve always run the wood over the bit, not under. Do you have any problem with kick-back? Or is it just my imagination that it could be pretty tricky?

By the way, that’s going to be some lovely cabinetry!

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Hey Les,

The new router table looks like it makes that process a lot easier. Humm..I wonder if you could redue the table some how to do the outy’s on there too? A narrow table with your curved supports maybe? Can you change the table size on it? Hey, your making me think about these things now with all these great blogs, what can I say…lol.

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Jim your right I could do the outy’s on here as well. I just bought this recently to make it eaiser to the iny’s. It worked out really well, made it much eaiser to do.

Lightweight, I ran the panels in about four passes, didn’t try and run them in one, so they went really easy.

Thanks guy’s

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

very impressive work.
thanks for sharing!

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I’ve always wondered how that was done. Great job. Thanks for sharing.

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Those panels look great Les. I guess if you asked 10 woodworkers how they’d go about making these you’d get 10 different answers. I’d tend to make up some type mdf jigs for my shaper to stand these panels on edge and run them. That way i could grind the profile out of some 22 dollar Amana blanks, saving the cost of expensive router bits, and don’t have another limited use machine taking up space.

My theory is just about anything you do with a router table is much easier done on a shaper. But thats just me.

Your approach obviously works good for you because this project looks great!

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miles, Your right it could have been done on the shaper and i could have ground a knie to do it with. But I look at it this way: by the time I ground a knife and set up a shaper and made the jigs to do it with I could buy the router table and the bit (56.00) for less money than I spent on labor to do it on the shaper. And beside I’m a tool junky, this way I can do any job that comes along. Sometime I’ll post the router table I built to do a job with. I can do more with a router than I can do with a shaper any day of the week.

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)