Thread: Wanted: 4metres of "Staff Beading"

Hi Gordon.
I waited a few days to see if you were lucky but, as expected, I see that you did not get any answers.

The reason is simple: unless somebody has exactly the router bit needed for that profile, the job needs to be done by hand, and a professional woodworker would have to charge you a lot for that small job and would not bother.

If you have the skills required to restore the door, it will be easy to do it yourself, as I have done in similar circumstances.

There are two ways, depending on what profiles you can buy:

1 - if you can find 7mm square and a 6mm half round you can glue one on top of the other and sand the top of the round a little.

2 - Start from a rectangle 7x9 (you can certainly get a larger size thicknessed to that, if necessary) and after cutting the lengths down to slightly more than what you will need for the frame pieces, use a metal ruler and a craft knife to cut out the 2x1 mm corner, then smooth the corners of the rounded profile with sandpaper.

Good luck.

it might be lots easier to make a scratchstock

If you have a router, you could buy a "Bull nose radius bit" such as the TBN4B from Carbi-tool (see http://www.carbitool.com.au/router_catalogue.html ) and make the bead yourself.

I can do that for you if you want. Shouldn't take long with a plane. Just thickness a board....run the bead along the edge. Table saw it off, rejoint.... thickness.

But I'm about 3 hours away, and I won't be able to do it for a couple of weeks, due to my wife being hospital. So I'm minding kids. Can't leave the house really till shes out.

pine right ?

Gawd, what a motivator. Am I good or am I good?!

yeh, your goooood. . Its the first time I saw this thread.

IMO though, for a small job like that in something like pine, by far the easiest way is by hand plane.

Don't mind doing it for you Gordon in a couple of weeks. I'd want at least 30 bucks for it. And I can post it to you if you like. (don't know exactly what that would cost. Shouldn't be much)

Good offer Jake

Originally Posted by apricotripper

and I won't be able to do it for a couple of weeks, due to my wife being hospital. So I'm minding kids. Can't leave the house really till she's out.

Jake

hope it's nothing serious with the wife

Ian

Ta Ian. Bit of a scare at one stage with some talk of cancer. But she came out of surgury this aftertoon and they said they fixed the problem. So everythings ok. Will see her tomorrow.

Sorry for overlooking the second paragraph of your previous post, Jake, my best wishes also. Looks like Gordon is not coming back, he might expect people to ring him back on the number he gave. Still worth your while?

Cheers

Thats ok. Hard to keep track of everything. She's fine now. back home resting.

No, its not really worth my while. Just trying to be a nice guy. Wanna have some good deeds tucked under belt I spose when I die, uno, just in case god really does exist. Sorry, trying to be funny.

Hi all,

I'm used to getting emails to remind me when new messages come in on forums, and had assumed I received no messages.

So, it's taken until today to check...

Thanks all for responding - I solved the problem, minus the little "quirk" in the profile.

bought some 9mm tall, and "ripped it down" to 7mm with my 6in De Walt, sitting in a jury-rigged jig. Very pleased with myself, considering I'm not a craftsman's bootlace!!

Thanks again everyone.

I think thats great mate. Can get expensive buying small quantities of stuff like this too I reakon.

Why not putty the glass in. I reputtied a window for the first time in about 15 years and strangely foundx it rather satisfying. Putty always seems neater than beads if you ask me.
Ben