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   MBerger | Jul 02, 2008 02:51pm | #1

   That certainly is a puzzle. I just got back from vacation so let me ask one of the editors today about it and get back to you. I remember a staff project that had a routed edge just like it.

   Matt

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   MBerger | Jul 03, 2008 10:29pm | #2

   Okay. Here's the deal. The photo you sent over shows a drawer/door pull with a much larger diameter than the one I saw from another editor on staff. Also, the pull I saw was on a flat drawer face. But for what it's worth, here are a few thoughts that may help:

   1. If you had the right custom shaper head (and a flat door or drawer), you could set the fence so that it's covering most of the cutter, lay the door face down on the shaper table surface, and then plunge the edge of the door into the cutter, making the complete recess shown in the photo.

   2. You could use a similar process on the tablesaw with one of Lonnie Bird's special tablesaw cove cutters (http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?FamilyId=8215). Steady the door or drawer face on the tablesaw with clamps and stops, and raise the blade while cutting into the edge. That will create the rounded groove. Then secure a semi-circular router template to the face of the door and use a bearing-guided roundover bit to cut away the section that makes that part that you grab with your hand.

   3. Finally, I have to imagine there's a way you could do this with a handheld router, a fluting bit, and a small roundover bit. I envision a router jig that allows you to make a smooth end-grain cut with the fluting bit by allowing the router to travel down a ramp, cuts continuously deeper and then shallower, and then exit the workpiece up a ramp. With the grouve cut, you could use the router template described above.

   Sorry I couldn't offer a full-fledged solution. Anyone else out there care to comment?

   Matt

    

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   brandontkimble | Jul 03, 2008 11:36pm | #3

   Matt,

   Thank you for your response.  The picture does illustrate a curved door, however my doors and drawers are flat.  I plan to use a shaper for this.  My thought was I could jig a bearing on a jig that went over the cutter and perpendicular while using a pattern to ride on the bearing.   This term was described to me as a "following jig". 

   I thought more woodworkers would have known this jig but it seems I am out of luck and will have to do many trial and error runs.   

   If anyone knows about this jig please let me know.  Thanks agian for the help.

    

   Brandon