Edging Question

[Chems]

Nigel - routing decorative edges on shelves was the very first thing I did in woodwork. It was great fun, and it is a useful skill.

Do you have a router?

Basically you will need a router, a suitably shaped cutter (check out Wealden - they get good marks from the people on here.
You will need a bench or workmate, a couple of clamps and a hoover...

Let us know what you have already got and we can help.

Ditto this post, you'll make a complete mess of it if you try to use hand tools. The one your looking at was done with a router so why not just do the same. Pick up a cheap router an set of cutters from your local DIY shop an get to practicing. Easiest thing in the world just make sure you go from right to left like reading a book.

 

[Smudger]

Couldn't agree more.

 

[George_N]

Easiest thing in the world just make sure you go from right to left like reading a book.

If you are using a router hand-held, the normal feed direction (and the safest) is left to right. Right to left is called climb cutting, because the cutter tries to climb out of the cut, which is sometimes useful and necessary, but can be harder for a beginner to control. For a router table, where the router is inverted, then the feed is right to left.

 

[Nigel Peck]

Easiest thing in the world just make sure you go from right to left like reading a book.

If you are using a router hand-held, the normal feed direction (and the safest) is left to right. Right to left is called climb cutting, because the cutter tries to climb out of the cut, which is sometimes useful and necessary, but can be harder for a beginner to control. For a router table, where the router is inverted, then the feed is right to left.

I'm assuming that's what he meant to type, since that's the direction you read a book.

 

[Chems]

Yep sorry about that, thats what I meant to read, no write :wink: