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Making Quirk Beaded Face Frames

I worked on a face framed bathroom set of cabinets. Those cabinets were made from mahogany and had a nice quirk bead detail. The bead is about 1/4" and it is applied to the inside edge of the face frame. I had to mill all the beads and this is what I did.

  • I first used some 1-3/4" by 13/16" stock I had left from making the face frames.
  • I then set up my moulding head cutter in my table saw with a three bead cutter.
  • I use an auxiliary fence and set it over two of the three beads so I'd just cut one in the stock.
  • I used some feather boards to hold the stock while cutting it.

After getting the set up right

  • I Cut one side and the turned the piece around and then cut the next side.
  • After I cut a bead on both edges I passed those edges through my jointer. This gave me a perfect round edge .
I then cut the beaded edge off at my bandsaw leaving the reveal and a small section of the "flat" edge next to the reveal.
  • I did this so I had "something" to plane. . . ;-).
  • You can see in the photo that the stock has become smaller, that's because I was able to cut four beads from each piece.
  • You see the second pass in the photo.
I then passed all the cut edges through my thickness planer to just give me about a 1/16" reveal of the bead.
Once the pieces come out of the planner they are ready and only need some minor sanding.
This is a photo of the beaded pieces ready to be applied to the face frames.

Appling a Quirk Bead on a arched frace frame.

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