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Thread: How do i round the corners on a tabletop to be consistent?

  1. #16
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    For kids furniture do not worry. make each corner rounded but very different, adds character. For instance one is egg shaped, one a whales back, a tortoise, cloud etc , just paint the figures onto the top after rounding them over.
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    David

    Mark the radius on both sides of the table top. Using a rasp, and going with the grain, begin to relieve the corner. The motion for the rasp is rocking motion, opposite of the curve you need to make. It seems counter intuitive, but it works.
    Don't drag the rasp backward. Use firm, but gentle, pressure, holding the rasp at both ends and rock it. finish up with a sandpaper block using the same rocking motion.
    It will probably take you longer to mark the radius of each corner as a guide, than to remove the material.

    Trust your hands and eyes.
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    Surprised that it hasn't been mentioned before but if you would be happy with a corner that had the radius of the distance from the edge of your router bit to the edge of the router base, just clamp a board with a square end to your table top with the side and the end each that distance from the edge of the table.Then pivot the router around the corner keeping the same spot on the base that you measured from tight to the corner of the board (in case the bit is not exact center or you have a square base) All done and all corners the same.
    Last edited by Dick Brown; 01-27-2018 at 3:17 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dick Brown View Post
    Surprised that it hasn't been mentioned before but if you would be happy with a corner that had the radius of the distance from the edge of your router bit to the edge of the router base, just clamp a board with a square end to your table top with the side and the end each that distance from the edge of the table.Then pivot the router around the corner keeping the same spot on the base that you measured from tight to the corner of the board (in case the bit is not exact center or you have a square base) All done and all corners the same.
    You can do the same thing with template bushings and some plywood. Use template bushing instead of router base for pivot.

  5. #20
    Thanks Dick Brown and Bruce Wrenn for the great tip!

  6. #21
    If your goal is safety for kids and you're not married to the look of a radius, you can simply truncate the corner. That's a lot easier to do symmetrically with a simple hand saw. As long as you ease the corners a tad, it will be functionally equivalent for safety.

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