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   AdamCherubini | Nov 20, 2006 09:23pm | #1

   If I understand your question, the quick answer is no. 

   The question I have is how far are you willing to go?  If you are using a router with commercially available bits, chances are none of your moldings will be "period correct".  So how much do you care?  The larger question is "what is reproduction furniture"?

   So if I am on the same page of the hymnal, what I see looks like a quarter round, such that there is a small fillet (flat spot) and the full thickness is radiused (there's no flat spot adjacent to the case). BUT, the cross section or profile is never circular.  Its always an ellipse.  So if the drawer front thickness is 5/8", the edge is rounded 1/2", leaving an 1/8" fillet, but the reveal on the front face may be or 3/4" or more.  So a 1/2" round over bit is close and that seems to be what people use, but that's not what I see. 

   Now it could be that those drawer fronts are all quartersawn and they may have started out as quarter rounds and have become elliptical.  I doubt it, but it may be so.  Either way, they all seem to be elliptical now.

   Adam

    

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   spitfire | Nov 20, 2006 09:58pm | #2

   Thanks for your reply, I too belirve the edge is mor eliptical than rounded.

   I am not lookign for authentic peirod detail.   It is just that I like the way it looks and I cannot see how I can reproduce them with a 3/16 round over bit.  Hmm I will have to look at my books and see.

   I hear mention of a beading bit but I do not think one can use a beading bit to make those type edges on the drawers