Is there a router bit set to match this profile?

Gwirst.

You can always get a custom build bit but it is not cheap. They probably used a shaper and stacked cutters to make that profile. This is possible (and common) on shapers but not on routers. Shapers have an axle on which you can mount a stack of profiles.

The only option you have in a small shop is to reproduce the profile with multiple bits, I think.

Alin

-- -- Alin Dobra, Gainesville, Florida

I support Alin’s comments. It does not look like a very difficult profile to duplicate if you have to do it manually.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

I’d use a 3/16” roundover and a rabbet bit to cut the bottom cut. Using a bearing bit on each of the two bits should make it all line up fine.

And no I’ve not seen any bit like it.

You might be able to modify this bit with putting a rabbet bit on the top. It only seems to be available in 1/4, 3/8” profile,

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

He will have to have the positive and the negative of the profile to get the to pieces to mate.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Do it in 2 passes, one round over and one rabbit

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

I don’t know why I didn’t think of it, but it probably was done on a shaper. I used to have one but never used it and sold it. It looks like I’m stuck using a combination of roundover, cove, and rabbit bits to reproduce the profile. I’ll have to experiment on some scrap, but my main concern is going to be getting the rails and stiles to match perfectly. If I can get the scrap pieces to mesh I can use them to setup the bits for the actual pieces. I wondered why they used a non-standard profile; but since they used a shaper it was cheap to use standard stacked shaper bits to create the desired profile without having to use relatively expensive panel router bits.

I didn’t realize that the cove on the other side was part of it. You can do this. You might have to buy a router bit that matches either the round over or the cove but the set up shouldn’t be any more trouble than a stick and cope set. One tip that you probably already know is to cut all the parts with the same profile at once. think of it as a cope and stick setup and cut the cope first. Then match the try sticks to the cope to cut the mating part.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Well, I did a quick and dirty proof of concept setup using some scrap MDF I had lying-around and it looks like it will work. I didn’t have a cove bit that even came close to a 1/2” overlay so I had to reduce the lip section to 1/4”, but otherwise it looks like it will work fine and is close enough to the original nobody is going to really notice.

Very good

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

nice job, I knew you could do it.

-- bryano