As some of you may know already, I'm working on a face framed barroom set of cabinets. These cabinets are made from mahogany and have 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 an arched rail.