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4th November 2021, 12:56 PM #1Member
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Bevel Edge on Table - How to ? Tips ?
Greetings,
Am looking at a simple bedside Shaker table project over the Xmas holidays...my first bit of 'proper' furniture.
I want to put a bevel edge on the underside of the table top as per the picture below Have not done one of these before.
I have looked around the www and a lot of people tend to use table saws and routers for this. I have neither.
Again I couldn't find a lot of info on using hand planes to fashion the bevel so would appreciate some advice/tips on the best way to do this.
TIA
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4th November 2021, 01:12 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Use an electric planer to take off the bulk, then a number 4 hand plane to finish it off. Make a bevel template to check it all along as you go, clamp it down to the bench when planing as it needs to be even.
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4th November 2021, 01:19 PM #3... and this too shall pass away ...
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A very long time ago I had the same issue with my first coffee table. I didn't own a plane, but someone gave me a nice long scraper. The scraper was fixed to the end of a block of wood. The block was held flat on the table top, and bit by bit that bevel was scraped into existence. From memory, it only took an hour or two.
Perhaps you could rough plane it to start with, and finish off with a scraper. The only trick is to somehow hold the scraper at a constant angle, and I'm sure you can figure that out.
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4th November 2021, 01:39 PM #4Member
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4th November 2021, 01:40 PM #5
If you have a table saw, you could make a high fence, and after tilting your blade, run the panels through on their edge.
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Just off the top off my head during a cup of tea for what it’s worth, what about a type of shooting board. A couple of wedges to hold the top at the desired angle, a strip the width of the blade edge to plane edge attached to timber for the plane support and the wedge set lower than the strip at the desired edge thickness. Something like this.
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4th November 2021, 03:10 PM #9
GAH! I even read the OP twice to check if a lack of TS was mentioned. Then after reading your response read it again trying to see where you got that quote from. It was only on the forth time that I found it. How embarrassing!
Sorry draconus for my less that helpful response.
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Its all good mate - my eyes often see what isn't there as well
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4th November 2021, 04:50 PM #13
Proper Furniture! Assembled with biscuits . Errr, OK. . Domino or dowel is a bit better and M&T a lot better. I'm talking the fun factor getting better. The part when you put in the glue and clamp the sections together.
Anyway
The bevel under the top . Just finger gauge some lines where you want it to finish and send a hand plane in that direction with the top flipped and held securely . Like between your bench dogs . Or clamped to a work table .
I have all sorts of machines but that is still how Id finish it . I would do it on my table saw first then skim the saw marks off as mentioned.
No Table saw though, just plane it all the way . Here's a similar job using a Badger plane . The panels (3 of them ) were sawn first to give me a good start.
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