A Jointer and Thicknesser are two large workshop tools which take up a lot of room, and cost a lot of money.
When I absolutely need to use them for my carpentry work I drive one hour to a workshop which I rent for the day.
But this week I needed to make curved beading for a set of round doors that I was making, and I needed to thickness it down to the correct size once I had bent and glued it into shape.
In this post I will go through how I did that. Check out the video here, and I will explain it step by step below
- First you need to make your curved beading, either in segments, by steam bending, or like I did here using bent lamination.
- Once you have your oversized bead you need to thickness it down to size.
- So I clamp it back to the form I used to make the bent lamination, making sure it is level with (but below) the top face of the form
- Then I use a flush trim bit, the least deep one I have and I set it to take off the minimum from the top face of the bead.
- I turn over the bead and make sure it is good and level with the top face of the form again. Then I repeat the previous step, but cutting to final depth.
- And thats all there is to it, your bead should now be level and thicknessed.
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