What tool do I need?

[Rob Luter]

Just for fun and to answer another question from the past a trip to the shop took place and a #4 hollow (1/4") was used to round over a corner:

There are a few things to practice before doing this:

Hollow Rounding Corner.jpg

In this image my finger tips are being used to keep the top edge of the blade from touching the work.


Corner Round.jpg

If one is not careful the quirk points can leave a mark at the edge of the rounding. This can be cleaned up with a smoothing plane but can ruin a clean round over.

An alternative way to round the corner is to create rabbets on the two sides of the corner:

Double Rabbet Corner.jpg

This can be impressive:

Half Astragal?.jpg

Finally a #16 (1") hollow was used to round over the entire edge of this 4/4 piece of alder:

4:4 Bullnose.jpg

Almost a full bullnose, most folks wouldn't notice. An actual bullnose plane would do a complete half diameter cut as in my earlier post. That plane was later used to make this into an approximately 1-1/2" dowel.

jtk

Thanks for the suggestions. It’s a shame you are nearly 2,300 miles away. I’d like a demo