Routing a true radius

Do some math, resulting in locating a pin on each end of the template stock.

Build a crazy jig for the pins to ride against.

Set the template stock against the jig boards such that both pins bear against the jig boards. Feed it thru left to right, keeping pins in contact with jig boards until the pin on the other end approaches the router bit. Don't route the pins off!


Viola! A true radius routed in the template. The footboard arch is a different radius that this one. The set-up is almost exactly the same: one jig board has to be swung "open" a bit, but it will result in a radius of something like 18 feet. That would be a really, really, really big circle jig.

Sharon's bed

Eye height 60" - getting into bed
Eye height 60" - headboard and footboard height, curvature, etc.
Trying to emulate the photo from Thomasville's CKing version. The curves were pinned directly from the image in SU, but the HB still looks too "crested" - due to being "queen-ified," I guess.

Other notes: mattress assumed 9" thick, mattress top at 30" high.

Last update June - see "older posts"

Shop shots

turned mallet

Artsy little pot

Someone on Woodnet says, "if it don't hold soup, it's art."

Prototype hall table, poplar, no finish

Home Office cabs, cases, maple, HD ply, garnet shellac

The right side base cabinet with the printer tray pulled out.

A very sloppy shot of the three drawers in the left cabinet base.

The drawers in the right desk base cabinet.

Small tool cabinet

Soft maple milled for Sharon's bed

Bench storage drawers

SS lathe/drill chuck and tennon lathe chuck

Assorted shop-made tools

CD case, cherry, dado

Incra right angle stock-feeding jig

Incra TSIII jig

MDF router table with MDF ribs for stiffness

Pantry drawers, birch

Platypus end table, cherry, stain, lacquer

Steve with a beard?