I received a beautiful piece of mahogany from a neighbor that I would like to turn into a small coffee table. I have most of my design plans figured out but I don’t know what these corners are called. I feel like I used to see them on tables everywhere but can’t find an online example. I even picked up this board from the thrift store just because the corners are similar to what I want to do. I would have mine go in a little further and rout the edges with a round over bit or something so the edges and corner wasn’t so sharp. But I really want to know if there is a name for this particular type of corner so I can research and make sure I do it properly, and also to explain what I’m doing a little bit easier.

  • arcrust
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    1 year ago

    Oh damn. I never thought about adding the extra two pieces. That’s good. Thanks.

    Just to add some extra detail for others. The router bits have bearings that ride on the template. The bearings prevent you from cutting farther into your final piece but cuts everything else out.

    I have a small table router. I find that holding the router by hand results in some wobbling and therefore imperfect cuts. Because of that I can’t clamp the pieces together. So, I bought some industrial double sided tape that works extremely well.