Decorative Beading

[Brian Eaton]

Happy new year to all of you! My wife crashed early tonight so the wheels in my head are turning. I am making a simple set of shelves to help contain my growing hand plane collection and want to dress them up a bit for the heck of it.

i have a Veritas small plow plane with a few beading blades and was thinking of adding some beading to each of the four shelves. A few quick questions:

1) is there a resource I can access for traditional uses of things like beading, fluting, etc.

2) would it be more typical for a bead to be run along the front edge of the top face of each shelf (i.e. running the fence of the plow plane against the show edge) or more typical to have the bead on the show edge (register the plane fence against the top face of the shelf)?

This is definitely not a make or break decision so I’d love any and all input. I don’t have a bunch of Moulding planes to facilitate more complex profiles - kind of just looking for an excuse currently to use the beading blades I purchased. Ultimately the intended use of those planes in the near future is to add a bead to the bottom of the aprons to a simple table I’m planning on building soon.

Thanks!

[bridger berdel]

Make a sample or three to see how it'll look

[Jim Koepke]

The possibilities are near infinite.

Google > shelf edge bead detail < in images for a few ideas.

jtk

[David Myers]

There's an episode of The Woodwright's Shop called "The Venerable Bead" that may be what you're looking for.

Link

[steven c newman]

cleaned up beads.jpg
I suppose someone will come along and tell me these ain't beads..
started.jpg
Or, this isn't Curly Maple....
second bead.jpg
Might be a bit much....

[Brian Eaton]

The possibilities are near infinite.

Google > shelf edge bead detail < in images for a few ideas.

jtk

thanks! I think I may have found what I was looking for!

[Brian Eaton]

cleaned up beads.jpg
I suppose someone will come along and tell me these ain't beads..
started.jpg
Or, this isn't Curly Maple....
second bead.jpg
Might be a bit much....

steven, those look like beads to me! Too much for what I’m looking for on this project but good examples nonetheless. Thanks for responding!

[Brian Eaton]

There's an episode of The Woodwright's Shop called "The Venerable Bead" that may be what you're looking for.

Link

Thanks! I will give it a watch!

[Stewie Simpson]

Happy new year to all of you! My wife crashed early tonight so the wheels in my head are turning. I am making a simple set of shelves to help contain my growing hand plane collection and want to dress them up a bit for the heck of it.

i have a Veritas small plow plane with a few beading blades and was thinking of adding some beading to each of the four shelves. A few quick questions:

1) is there a resource I can access for traditional uses of things like beading, fluting, etc.

2) would it be more typical for a bead to be run along the front edge of the top face of each shelf (i.e. running the fence of the plow plane against the show edge) or more typical to have the bead on the show edge (register the plane fence against the top face of the shelf)?

This is definitely not a make or break decision so I’d love any and all input. I don’t have a bunch of Moulding planes to facilitate more complex profiles - kind of just looking for an excuse currently to use the beading blades I purchased. Ultimately the intended use of those planes in the near future is to add a bead to the bottom of the aprons to a simple table I’m planning on building soon.

Thanks!

Brian; you may find the following site of interest. https://www.mouldingsone.com/mouldin...ecount-10.html

Stewie;

[Brian Eaton]

Brian; you may find the following site of interest. https://www.mouldingsone.com/mouldin...ecount-10.html

Stewie;

Stewie - thanks for sharing that great resource! I ended up just going for a bead at the top/front of each shelf but I am looking for more ways to incorporate these kinds of design elements on future projects so this will be very useful!