Front Panel Contour

I sanded off the paper from the front panel, and as I suspected, it is closer to the intended pattern. I worked a bit on straightening out the edges of the scrollwork on the front panel with the scrollsaw. Before I get hot and heavy with filing, I figured it would make sense to get the front panel curved first. My new-to-me table saw has a router mount on it, so I mounted my new Sears router onto the table saw and routed the channels down the front piece. I exported an image of the end contour of the front piece into Photoshop, and printed a template onto card stock. I then traced the curve of the template on the ends of the front piece.



I used a belt sander with a 60 grit belt to sand down the front to match the contour that I traced onto the ends. I stared with an angle, then kept sanding down. The belt sander allowed me to get a nice flat sand to the front. I kept checking my sanding against the ends that I traced.





Here is a shot with one side done.



Here is the front panel with the contour sanded. The panel right now is wider and taller than it is going to be, but this is on purpose to avoid nicks to the edges until I am ready to cut them to the proper size.





Now I've got a bunch of filing to do. I am very pleased with the way the contour has worked out. It has turned out better than I expected.

Until next time. Thanks for stopping by.