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Building photo frame12/8/2023 ![]() Now you see what the block does? The block makes certain that we have a 98-degree angle here. Now we'll take this piece, lay it up against the block, take the adjoining piece, lay it up against that edge and then push these two together. Because this is end grain, it tends to soak the glue up. So what we're going to do is take our molding, put a little glue on the end of the miter cut here - I've got a pretty generous coat of glue on this. And I've made up a simple gluing jig right here with a piece of particle board or MDF and then on top of that, a square - I made sure that this was exactly square just screwed in place, just a few inches in from the edge. We're going to glue these together right now. I'm also using a stop block to make sure the sections on opposite sides of the frame are exactly the same length.įinally, we have some finished frame parts right here. To do that more accurately, I'm using the miter gauge for the table saw, to which I've attached a wood strip as an extension. Now I need to cut angles or miters on the ends of each section. A very nice looking profile we've got right here. So let's do the same thing we did before. Well, now we're ready to glue our third piece of molding on top of our stack of moldings, if you will, to give us a very interesting profile right here. See how the round shape is carried around the entire edge? Let's go ahead and run this through twice -once in this direction, then we'll flip it over and run it through the other direction. Now this is a very thin piece of wood, so I've added a couple of blocks here and here to hold this in position, keep it from chattering and allow me to keep my fingers well away from the blade. So I've set up our router table once again for our final routing. And what I want to do is to create a rounded edge on this. Well, this is the third piece of board in our sort of molding sandwich, if you will. This notch will hold the glass and photograph in place, and conceal the edges. Now see what a graceful S-curve that makes? Now I've installed a straight bit on the router and I'm cutting out a rabbit or a recess on the back side of the frame. You can see right there how that's going to work. And to do that, we're going to use this core box bit. It's going to actually create kind of an S-curve. Remove this little piece of material right in here. ![]() Well, the glue's dried, the clamps are off, here's that piece that we attached. Now we'll set this one aside to dry and we'll do up a few more, just like this. Then we'll take some spring clamps, put one of these every few inches. I'm going to make it flush with the back. Now we'll take this, plop it right on top of that piece that we just finished routing there. So what we end up with is a nice even film of glue. So we'll take a glue spreader and just kind of paint this on here. Now, I want to get this nice and evenly spread out. It's going to go right on top, just like that. Now this is going to form the base of our molding, our picture frame, if you will.Īnd what we're going to do next is we're going to stack on top of this, just a smaller piece of lumber. Now normally with a router, you move the router over the work, but when you're using a router table, you're passing the work over the router. This is just a standard router clamped upside down. ![]() It will mount into the router like this and the router in turn is held in this router table. Now to round over this piece of wood, we're going to use this router bit called a roundover bit. So the first thing I want to do is rip this down to the proper width. I picked this up at the local home improvement center, and we'll be using three different thicknesses - 3/4 inch, 1/2 inch and 1/4 inch. We're going to build our frame out of poplar. So that's exactly what we're going to do right over here at the workbench. ![]() And then I thought, you know what, this is a perfect workshop project - custom making a frame. Now I was going to take this down to a frame shop and have it professionally framed. My friend Hugh Morton down at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina is a wonderful nature photographer and he just sent me this photo of one of the bears at the park down there. ![]()
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