Profiling table and furniture plates with a professional design
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No. 223 Profiling table and furniture plates with a professional design A Description The industry often sets design and function standards which are then often implemented in trade also. What can be provided simply with CNC routers can be manufactured manually but requires a great deal of time and money. We try to pick up on such trends and implement them simply and quickly using standard machines and reasonably priced tools. It is now possible to produce more attractive aesthetic features for modern counters and plates with minimal time and effort involved. 223/01 1/5

This application example describes the profiling of a wooden plate edge with a radiusof6mmatthetopandthen merging into a 30° chamfer without an A chamfer cutter with a ball bearing and a special roundover-chamfer cutter with a cone-shaped ball bearing are offered in different models for this pur- pose. The cutters are used consecutively to create the profile shown here. In the application example the roundover-chamfer cutter with a radius R of 6 mm at a chamfer angle of a 15° is used. Cutters with a ball bearing guide allow different plate contours, straight, rolling or corner, thanks to...

C Preparation/Set-up Please carry out the following preparation work to route the new profile: •• First of all, the side of the plate with the more attractive visible side must be identified. This is marked. •• Set up the MFT so that you can securely fix the plate. If the plate is too big for the MFT, you must select another type of fixing, e.g. a rack as a support or also the Festool vacuum clamping system. The plate must be fixed securely in each case. •• Firstly position the bottom side of the plate facing up as the chamfer is cut at the plate first. 223/05 •• Clamp the chamfer cutter in...

E Preparation/Set-up Carry out the following preparation work for the second cut: •• •• •• •• Now turn the plate over so that the visible side is facing up. Secure the plate again as for the first cut. Now clamp the respective roundover cutter in the chuck of the router. Adjust the depth of the cutter so that the upper edge of the blade is on the plate. This is particularly easy to do if a small piece of wood or a ruler is positioned on the router table. 223/09 Position the router on the head and move the router table down until the radius outlet of the router rubs against the ruler, which...

Tip: If the corner chamfered on both sides is rounded using sandpaper, this rounding is copied for the second process "Chamfering a radius" (Fig. 223/13). 223/12 A perfect corner is created! 223/13 Our example for use is a recommendation tried and tested in practice. However the actual conditions pertaining in each situation are completely outside of our control. We therefore do not provide any form of guarantee. Any legal claims arising out of this are not to be made against Festool. Please observe without fail the safety and operating instructions included with the product....