Cutting a really wide chamfer?

Sounds like a tough one.. This sounds stupid, but can you lay your router table on its side?

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I had the same problem recently on a buffet table I was helping with. Sadly we ended up taking it to a cabinet shop to have it done. I think we paid them $20 or $30 to do it. We had to call 4 shops before we found one that would even entertain the idea.

Circular saw can work if you have a steady hand even if you are using a strait edge.

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Nice, safe, easy.

Hand plane.

Piece of cake.

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I use hand planes to do chamfers that size, safe, quiet, less dust.

Otherwise, if you have a router, see if you can find a bit that would work, though the smallest I’ve seen is 11.25 degree… or you could go with a really large bit (such as panel raiser) but those are expensive. And you’d need a variable speed router.

edit: Michael beat me to it on the hand plane

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Handplane, huh?

You know, I got me some of them, but I almost never use them. My hand skills – well, let’s see, what’s the word?, oh yeah! – SUCK!!!

Actually, my hand skills are pretty non-existent. It always seems easier to set up a machine, and there’e that illusion of precision. Plus, I fear making a mess of really nice figured cherry. Still, that’s probably the right thing to do . . .

I did think about a panel-raising bit on the router table set up with an outrigger, but for two cuts, that seems excessive.

Maybe its time to try hand-planing . . .

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Handplane. Use a marking gauge to mark your lines on top and edge, and go to town. Easy, safe and deliberate…

EDIT: Oh, and precision? No equal to a smoothing plane that can take a thou here and there…

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Snap some chalk lines, hack off most of the material with a drawknife,
move to a hand plane or a shinto saw-rasp, then to finer files, then
sand with a block.

You might be able to pull this off with a raised panel bit on a router table

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Quick and easy with a hand plane…hog off most of the material like Loren said, though I’d use the circ saw for that.

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Do you have a sliding miter saw?Cut Flip to do the other side. Of course you will have to sneak up on the second cut but you can be surprised how close you will get it.

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Make a jig and use a router. Rip some large angled wedges to put under a jig. A hinge mortise bit or something that will leave a flat bottom cut. Then sand untill it matches the front bevel.

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Start out at the edge, where you want the champfer to go. Angle a handplane so that it cuts at a diagonal to the direction you will be going. Also lay the plane at the angle of the champfer. First pass will just take off a thin ribbon. Next pass, the ribbon gets a bit wider. And so on until the champfer is finished, in maybe 10 minute per.

Go to my project gallery. Look up a “TV Table’ , made from red wood, cedar I think it was. All the edges were done this way. With a simple #3 smooth plane.

Note: when doing this, make sure the front”knob” is hanging over the edge. You want to go along at angle.

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mount the circular saw to a table / workbench set angle so as to rotate the circular saw not the table top. or mount the saw base 90 degrees to table dial in angle with saw tilt.

any chance you could just roll your table saw outside and find a way to support the work piece upright while making these 2 cuts ?

You could have it done in the time it takes to read all these responses. (with #6 or #7), plane that is.