I think that’s the term. Basically it’s a edge of a column with a 45 degree bevel, and the ends of the bevel are finished in a lambs tongue. Far as I know it has to be cut by hand. How is it done?
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Here's one guy's way.
http://www.woodsmith.com/issues/153/videos/a-lambs-tongue-chamfer/
If you're a decent carver, you may not need the sand paper.
Thats a nice video and the guy has a real sharp chisel. I'd chamfer the edges with the chisel and get a Microplane to do the rest.
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Eddie,
Here's a pdf article from the FWW site that contains a bit about cutting a lamb's tongue.
http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/FWNPDF/011147054.pdf
I cut a few on a large oak trestle table last year. It helped to do a couple of practice ones first, especially on the open-grained & fibrous oak. It's not too difficult, though, esecially if you don't mind the handmade aspect of having each tongue look slighty different from all the others.
I used a small gouge of near flat profile to give the basic shape, followed by small rasps and files then sandpaper to fare and smooth.
Abranet sandpaper seemed to work better at giving a snooth finish to the gouged and rasped/filed surfaces of the tongues, perhaps because it's got a flexible backing and doesn't mind being bent to get in the tongue's crevices.
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