Rounding Moulding Corners

[Greg.B]

Well as I have posted before I am working on building a bar, and now am focusing on the bartop. Yes I know its been taking a long time, but with work and life getting in the way, its taking some time.

Anyway the wife requires the corners to be rounded. I have 1 45deg. corner, that is the only issue. I'm using some Cap Moulding that has a slight lip on the top that will sit on top of the bartop. Well I'm trying to figure out if its possible to route, non-flat moulding (it has a design to it) to produce a rounded corner, verse a pointed one.

I have a router and have routed corners round when the wood is flat, but never when it is wavy due to the style of the moulding. What can be used, if its even possible.

[LCHIEN]

if you want molding to have a rounded corner, then you will need to round the stock first then route the molding profile onto it.

Otherwise, you you end up with some of the profile cut off when you round the corner!

[Greg.B]

That is what I assumed, so what if you working with a moulding that already has a profile, regardless of the look, is it even possible.

Let me also put this out there, if you had to do this, would you do it another way, then using a router ?

[Pappy]

I did the final shaping on the edge of this by hand with a file, scraper and sanding.

[wan2fly]

Our bar

Couple of friends built this bar.
I've never posted pics before
We're a group of home brewers with a camping problem.

[cabinetman]

If rounding the corners can be done the way Pappy described, that would be the easiest way. If in doing so you lose the profile, or there are too many edges, check out this thread for making curved mouldings.

[Greg.B]

I have decided to just route up my own mouldings that will not have the design issue. I'm going to make a post about this next.