Shop Made Bar Rail

[cabinetman]

This bar rail I made with a radius router bit and the table saw. It's from 8/4 Red Oak.
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[nickg]

Nice rail! That must have been a pretty good sized router bit you used. How did you attach rail to the bar top?


PS: Were you in Special Forces (per Avatar)? RVN?


Nick

[cabinetman]

The bar rail is stepped to receive the bar top (a mating). The top is then screwed into the bar rail.

Served in SF in the late 60's.
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[John Hunter]

Very nice.

[prlundberg]

Served in SF in the late 60's.
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And now you're "serving" in Florida...

OK, I'll apologize up front for that one.

Nice work, did you come up with that design yourself? I wouldn't have thought of making that deep of a cut with a router.

[cabinetman]

And now you're "serving" in Florida...

OK, I'll apologize up front for that one.

Nice work, did you come up with that design yourself? I wouldn't have thought of making that deep of a cut with a router.

The depth of the curve was done on the TS. The shape and depth can be created with blade movement and the angle of the pass. Different shapes can be made by even putting on a smaller blade.
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[cgallery]

That's pretty slick, if you hadn't said anything I woulda assumed that a mighty large shaper was employed in the making of that rail.

[cabinetman]

That's pretty slick, if you hadn't said anything I woulda assumed that a mighty large shaper was employed in the making of that rail.

Funny you should say that. I did wind up getting a shaper after banging out variations of those for a couple of years. Actually with a shaper and power feed, bar rails are a cinch, as is most mouldings.
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[lrogers]

I thought it was done with a shaper too. Nice job!