I am tryng to figure out how to angle the edge of an elliptical dining table I am making. It is 1 1/2″ thick, and I want to angle the edge about 15 degrees. I will make a template of the shape and use a hand held router with a bearing bit to bring it to the finished elliptical shape, but I am not sure how to angle the edge. I thought about trying to angle the router with a block of some sort to achieve the 15 degrees, but I think that the angle will change as I turn the router through the different curves of the ellipse. Not sure if I’m explaining this very well, but if anyone has any advice, I’d appreciate it.
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Bit choices
Your best bet, in my view, is to choose an edge-profile bit that gives you the desired (angled) profile. Trying to tilt the router via an auxiliary base, and keep the angle of that base tangent to the arc of the ellipitcal table edge would be virtually impossible.
Bevel Edge
Here is a 'hybrid' possibility: Rout the steps along the edge to remove some material. Ten smoth the bevel with a plane. The corners of the steps can serve as guidelines.
Best wishes,
Metod
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