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"stryped"

27/06/2006 10:53 AM

Drawer front question

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As I said before I am making a small knife drawer with a removable
cutting board. The false front for the drawer is about 2 1/2 inches
wide by 14 inches or so long. Posted previously about the raised panel
look. Was basically told it would be hard to do on a table saw. (And my
router wont accept a 1/2 inch raised pannel bit).

I am lloking to somehow make the flat false front look more appealing.
Would going around the edges with a small Roman Ogee bit look ok? it is
about 1/2 inch thick. I mean going completely around all edges of the
drawer?


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"Andy"

in reply to "stryped" on 27/06/2006 10:53 AM

27/06/2006 11:03 AM

stryped wrote:
> I am lloking to somehow make the flat false front look more appealing.
> Would going around the edges with a small Roman Ogee bit look ok? it is
> about 1/2 inch thick. I mean going completely around all edges of the
> drawer?

Try it on scrap and see what you think. Just rout the end grain first
to avoid tearout.

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"stryped"

in reply to "stryped" on 27/06/2006 10:53 AM

27/06/2006 11:52 AM

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Is that considered a raised pannel? I did not know that. Every raised
panel bit I see puts a flat face on the board, so I guess I was not
thinking that a decorative edge could also be a raised panel.

Seriously, how do you think it would look?
dadiOH wrote:
> stryped wrote:
> > x-no-archive:yes
> >
> > As I said before I am making a small knife drawer with a removable
> > cutting board. The false front for the drawer is about 2 1/2 inches
> > wide by 14 inches or so long. Posted previously about the raised panel
> > look. Was basically told it would be hard to do on a table saw. (And
> > my router wont accept a 1/2 inch raised pannel bit).
> >
> > I am lloking to somehow make the flat false front look more appealing.
> > Would going around the edges with a small Roman Ogee bit look ok? it
> > is about 1/2 inch thick. I mean going completely around all edges of
> > the drawer?
>
> Let's see...that would give you a <gasp> raised panel, wouldn't it?
>
>
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"dadiOH"

in reply to "stryped" on 27/06/2006 10:53 AM

27/06/2006 6:44 PM

stryped wrote:
> x-no-archive:yes
>
> As I said before I am making a small knife drawer with a removable
> cutting board. The false front for the drawer is about 2 1/2 inches
> wide by 14 inches or so long. Posted previously about the raised panel
> look. Was basically told it would be hard to do on a table saw. (And
> my router wont accept a 1/2 inch raised pannel bit).
>
> I am lloking to somehow make the flat false front look more appealing.
> Would going around the edges with a small Roman Ogee bit look ok? it
> is about 1/2 inch thick. I mean going completely around all edges of
> the drawer?

Let's see...that would give you a <gasp> raised panel, wouldn't it?


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Pat Barber

in reply to "stryped" on 27/06/2006 10:53 AM

27/06/2006 7:23 PM

Make a few fronts up from MDF and have at it.

If you are in to really screwing around, you
can use edge molding on a flat panel(draw front)
to create a "faux raised panel" look.

You can make raised panels on a table saw using
a proper jig.
It requires a lot more screwing around to settle on
a design, but it is certainly doable.

Go down to a home center and look at the drawers
very carefully to get ideas...

stryped wrote:

> x-no-archive:yes
>
> Is that considered a raised pannel? I did not know that. Every raised
> panel bit I see puts a flat face on the board, so I guess I was not
> thinking that a decorative edge could also be a raised panel.


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