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Old design |
I thought it would be a "stately" looking detail, but I was too worried about getting significant tear-out by routing through the end grain that way. I did a run on a practice piece and it looked mediocre.
Since I don't want to waste the material (mainly because riding your bike with giant pieces of lumber is annoying and dangerous, but also because of the time & materials), I decided to go the safe route [pun intended] and simplify my design. To that end, I was doing this in the dark out on the back slab, so anything that makes this easier helps.
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New design |
I also decided that routing that round on the bottom of the rosettes was an unnecessary detail. I'm a bit of a details junky, so I'm going to commend myself on breaking a habit this round. Maybe I'm just getting lazier (is that possible?!), but I definitely did not feel like building a jig to hold the rosettes as a went at it in the dark with at 3.5 HP router.
No, I don't own a router table.
Yes, my birthday is coming up.
This weblog is has its own funny time line. I'm so far behind with posting on this blog, but it gives me a bit of satisfaction because when I hit the job site. Since there is often a multiple week lag between reality and blog-reality, I feel like I'm taking a time machine into the future when I put on my toolbelt.
Wooosh!!! |
... only the future looks like this:
I'm going to get back in my DeLorian now.
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