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Two Ways to Make Cock Beading
Use a router or traditional hand tools to produce material for this drawer detail
Feb 08, 2006
Cock beading can add depth to a drawer face and help conceal the gap between the drawer and the drawer box. In this video, woodworking instructor Steve Latta demonstrates two methods for creating cock beading. One technique uses traditional hand tools, and the other uses a router.
For more on making cock beading for drawers, read Steve’s article, “Beading a Drawer,” in the March/April 2006 issue of Fine Woodworking.
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How about going a little further with this, namely the end beads and how to handle the corners of the drawer front. This is good stuff, but he didn't go far enough.Want to see the ends of the drawer front handled too. Take it to completion and the finished drawer completed.
Suppose he ruined several fronts by chipping off the corner with the scratch bead tool? This was about like traveling from L A to Houston with a Washington State road map. Same thing with his use of the router, or even adding the cock bead using strips, he failed to address the corners. But having subscribed to FFW on and off since 1975, I have found way toooo many self identified experts providing incomplete instructions..... And the abuse of the word finesse is nauseating.
Anyone subscribing to woodworking publications since 1975 should at this point, 46 years later, know what they are doing. You had an opportunity to offer pearls of wisdom in your comments but you chose to just complain instead. I don't understand. What is the point of you…?
Notice any articles from that guy in FWW? Latta has 19 pages of articles. I think in a woodworking project build I know who I'd put my money on.
Some people are just keyboard warriors.
It is cocked beading, not “cock beading”.
You can get router bits based on the old Stanley #55 Moulding cutters from Lee Valley Tools. Radii range from 1/16” to 5/16”.
https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/tools/power-tool-accessories/router-bits/101856-stanley-number-55-molding-router-bits-beading
I really liked the simple scratch tool with a c-clamp idea! I'm rather new to wood working and love to learn from watching others. Thanks.
Take the blade out of your Stanley knife. See those two little semi-circular notches along the top edge? Use that as a scratch steel; it makes perfect cocked beading in a thin piece of stock. Probably a good idea to dull the sharp edge first or bury it in your scratch stock, but what a great way to re-purpose an old blade.
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