I made a picture frame (actually two) for a triple 4"x6" pictures
Nothing suitable in the shop, so I just picked up a piece of red oak at Lowes.
Decided to be a little different.
No 45-degree mitered corners. Because of the three windows I thought it easier to butt joint four cross pieces to two verticals.
That had the interesting consequence that you don't put in a rabbet for the pictures before you join the frame, but have to put the rabbet in after the frame is assembled. Then you get rounded corners. At first I was going to use my universal rabbeting bit with 8 bearings but then I realized the dia. of the main cutter was 1.375" which would leave a huge radius corner. I finally ordered a flush cut bit of 3/4" diameter and a 3/8" bearing (very small) to make 3/16" rabbets which was what I designed for but failed to look and see that I actually had a rabbet bit combo that fit, Anyway I had to use my trusty old HF corner chisel to square up the inside 3/8" radius corners.
Another new thing I tried is using an edge beading bit. This I feel is an underrated bit with an interesting profile. It does require two passes on two sides of an edge - one with the workpiece flat and another with it on edge, but it gives a cool profile on vertical edges of things. A bit 3-D with depth because of the cut on two sides.
In this case I did them both directions so you get a little square thingey where it crosses.
I'm thinking of routing a very small 45-degree chamfer on the inside of the three windows. to soften it a little. The resulting corners would be slightly rounded.
Nothing suitable in the shop, so I just picked up a piece of red oak at Lowes.
Decided to be a little different.
No 45-degree mitered corners. Because of the three windows I thought it easier to butt joint four cross pieces to two verticals.
That had the interesting consequence that you don't put in a rabbet for the pictures before you join the frame, but have to put the rabbet in after the frame is assembled. Then you get rounded corners. At first I was going to use my universal rabbeting bit with 8 bearings but then I realized the dia. of the main cutter was 1.375" which would leave a huge radius corner. I finally ordered a flush cut bit of 3/4" diameter and a 3/8" bearing (very small) to make 3/16" rabbets which was what I designed for but failed to look and see that I actually had a rabbet bit combo that fit, Anyway I had to use my trusty old HF corner chisel to square up the inside 3/8" radius corners.
Another new thing I tried is using an edge beading bit. This I feel is an underrated bit with an interesting profile. It does require two passes on two sides of an edge - one with the workpiece flat and another with it on edge, but it gives a cool profile on vertical edges of things. A bit 3-D with depth because of the cut on two sides.
In this case I did them both directions so you get a little square thingey where it crosses.
I'm thinking of routing a very small 45-degree chamfer on the inside of the three windows. to soften it a little. The resulting corners would be slightly rounded.
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