I have finally finished cutting the frame profiles. I decided to make a bunch of small frames, rather than just one. I really like framing, but boy am I dreading the mitering and glue up!
But before getting into the mitering (next blog entry), I wanted to show off some of the profiles. The first two pictures are of the frame I took from the plans on the American Woodworker website. I really enjoyed doing that one.
I already tried once on a cove frame I cut, and I just can’t get those miters to fit right. So if you have any suggestions, I will take your advise ingto account. I have hear of using a burnisher to force the miters to close, sanding, or more accurate table sawing. What do you think? Sorry about the picture quality.
Well, before I cut any miters, I think I will do some preperatory sanding. l
By the way, I discuss using the craftsman molder head in the previous blogs, but there is also a good discussion here by bkhop pertaining to the shopsmith. It is relevant to molding work in general and to these kinds of cutter heads:
http://lumberjocks.com/hops/blog/5688
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#1 posted 820 days ago
The profiles look good. there are many frame jig plans for the table saw. Shooting board is another option.
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#2 posted 820 days ago
I have a hard time with that, too. I have trouble getting that accurate with a table saw. I’d suggest a compound miter saw. Some of them aren’t to expensive.
Those are great looking profiles. Did you cut them yourself? I just saw the other blog. Very interesting. What size stock do you recommend for doing that?
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#3 posted 819 days ago
Thanks Wudchuck. You can see how I did it on the earlier posts. But the size i up you. The table saw molder cutters are 1” wide, so I ued stock that was wider and thicker, which added safety and stability. Then I ripped them to size, most are about 1 to 1.5 inches. Some of the profiles were made with jut angling the saw.
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#4 posted 817 days ago
For the miters…Dedicated miter sled for the TS or a really nice and accurate Incra (or similar) miter gauge. Also, for the narrow profiles you’re doing, a disk sander with fence at 45 would work too.
Incidentally, many would say the compound miter saw would not come close to the accuracy of the things I mentioned above.
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