[Shop-talk] cove (or 'dish') style cut on a piece of wood.

[Paul Parkanzky]

How precise does it need to be? Could you draw a circle and then
attack it with a wood carving bur?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYzCN-0LYmU

-Paul

On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 2:40 PM eric--- via Shop-talk
<shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> I'm making a piece of furniture that needs to have a rounded 'dish' cut into it.  Like a cove cut on a board, but just in a circle.  Think of a change plate where there is a bowl cutout on a board.
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> The cut would look like if you had a table saw blade about 1/2" out of the table, then put a piece of wood straight down on it and twisted it in a circle.  I know that wouldn't work (and would be HUGELY unsafe.)
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> Here is an image of the cut I am trying to make (there are two of them on this valet..
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> https://www.etsy.com/listing/229799235/mens-valet-mens-valet-change-dish-modern
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> Anyone know how to do that?  I can only find ways to make a cove lengthwise in a board.    The piece isn't small enough to put in a lathe (but I thought about making an insert, and that is my last resort, but I would rather not do that.)
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> Thanks in advance!
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