Thread: Matching router bit to drawer profile

If memory serves me correctly it is a "Sunk thumb Profile" I have one for the spindle moulder I have never seen one as a router cutter, mine was custom made 25 years ago for a bed room suit I made for some one.

Last time I checked, the folks at Carbitool could manufacture a custom bit for you to your exact specifications. A figure of around $200 is in my head, but that would be worth checking with them on - that was a figure I got at one of the woodworking shows 2-3 years ago. Whilst that may sound expensive, IMO for a custom bit, there's a lot that would be needed to come up with the design etc to make it.

It may well be worth giving them a call to discuss.

A local saw doctor/sharpening service might have some leads, Carbitool is probably a bit far from what I assume is Maryland USA

Pseli are you in fact in Maryland USA? If so I have a lead for you in Baltimore.

Greg

Hi Pseli

That profile is known as an ogee or a Roman ogee, and is very popular. There are several ways of cutting it.

If yours is on a commercially made kitchen fit out, then it was probably cut on a spindle molder with a custom made cutter or blade.

Alternatively, it could be cut with a router and every router bit maker has several ogee patterns; its then a matter of finding the best fit. Again there is the custom made option.

Finally, before power tools such edging was cut using molding planes.

An aside; 25 years ago I bought a house built in the 1880's and some idiot had modernised it in the 1960's by removing period fittings from some rooms, including foot high skirting boards. I took a patten of the skirtings, but was unable to replicate them with routers. I then started door knocking on commercial joinery shops to see if I could find one who could make a spindle molder cutter and cut the skirtings for me. First shop said "Too hard". Second shop looked carefully and said "That looks like one of our patterns" and then went a got a set of molder cutters hanging on a rusty nail and they fitted perfectly. Incredibly, that firm had supplied the original skirtings 120 years before, and they still had the cutters.