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   garageman | Feb 04, 2004 09:11am | #1

   I'm surprized your local lumber store does not carry the beadboard in Poplar.  I live in Southern Calif. and we can purchase it at most of the lumber stores.  With regard to your question, I'm not aware of any router bits specifically for beadboard.

   Good Luck.

   Whit 

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   jako17 | Feb 04, 2004 03:20pm | #2

   HI Steve It is fairly straight forward to make bead board with a router table,slot cutter and quirk bead bit .This assumes that you don't want to make the centre bead of double boards.Make sure that you have a fence that you can use finger boards on. Another way is make the t+g on a router table and the beads on the table saw with a moulding head(take great care with this ,it is an interesting way of reprofiling digits.)Lastlyyou can do it all on the shaper,which is the way I tend to make it using insert tooling,This may not be a viable option for you depending on your set up.

            

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   tcalisto | Feb 04, 2004 05:21pm | #3

   Steve,

   I assume that you want to make up large panels of bead board. One thought might be to run shallow dados at the required bead intervals and fill them later with dowels or better yet small strips with a bull nose that matches the bead profile you are looking for. I haven't tried this but in my mind it should work. This would probably look best in solid wood but it should should work for plywood too, if you don't mind a little bit of the core showing.

   Tom

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   grousemouse | Feb 04, 2004 05:47pm | #4

   Steve,

   I am surprised you cant find it in clear pine locally.  Even Menards in my area carries it.  The 1/4" thick stock they carry for wainscoting is knotty pine, but the 3/4" stock they carry for soffits and porch ceilings is clear yellow pine.  It is usually called 'beaded ceiling board'.  I can even get it in vertical grain Douglas Fir, but not at the big box stores.

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   crt2cu2 | Feb 07, 2004 01:15pm | #5

   Steve,

   I just finished milling, installing, and finishing about a mile of custom beadboard for a kitchen ceiling. This work was done to match some old stock in a 100 year old house. I bought a beading bit from Grizzly and made some jigs and fences for my router which worked fine. Grizzly sells beading bits in a few different sizes or you could use various combination of round-over and straight bits. If you do choose pine make sure it is clear, straight-grained, and cabinet grade. The typical lumberyard "outdoor" stock has way too high moisture content for interior furniture use.

   Namaste',

   Mike S.

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   darbywoods | Feb 08, 2004 04:49am | #6

   Steve

   I just did a project with bead board for a customer.  what I used was the 4x8 sheet of beadboard paneling from home depot and cut cut size.

   David Shafron

   http://www.darbynwoods.com