Roger Marty
08-28-2017, 11:32 AM
In the project plans pictured, I made the top out of quartersawn oak.
I'm wondering if I can skip the half-round molding on the top and instead just directly route the top piece with half-round? I'd still like the cove molding to serve as a lip for the cover of this chest. And I understand why dovetail key is needed with flatsawn (because wood movement would otherwise not allow the cove molding to be glued to the top). But my thinking is that with a quartersawn stop, I can skip the finicky dovetail key, directly route the half-round edges of the top, and then glue the cove molding to the bottom of the top?
Or is this partly aesthetics too to avoid edge-grain molding?
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I'm wondering if I can skip the half-round molding on the top and instead just directly route the top piece with half-round? I'd still like the cove molding to serve as a lip for the cover of this chest. And I understand why dovetail key is needed with flatsawn (because wood movement would otherwise not allow the cove molding to be glued to the top). But my thinking is that with a quartersawn stop, I can skip the finicky dovetail key, directly route the half-round edges of the top, and then glue the cove molding to the bottom of the top?
Or is this partly aesthetics too to avoid edge-grain molding?
366900