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Title: How to get rounded corners on Control Panel
Post by: Marky_1979 on May 16, 2007, 05:59:22 pm

I am in the process of building up my arcade I am building the control panel. I have a router and router tool piece set but have no woodworking skills and have never used one of these things before. I have provided a picture of what I want to achieve which is a rounded edge on the 4 corners of the C/P.

Title: Re: How to get rounded corners on Control Panel
Post by: leapinlew on May 16, 2007, 07:02:34 pm

I trace out the corner using a round flat object (lid, tuna can, whatever), cut it with a jigsaw and smooth it with a sander.

Title: Re: How to get rounded corners on Control Panel
Post by: NiteWalker on May 16, 2007, 07:12:27 pm

What Lew said or if you want your corners to be uniform in size and shape make a single corner template and use your router and flush trim bit to trim each corner with the template.

If your control panel is to be MDF then use lew's method. MDF sands very easily so getting the corners to the desired radius would only take a few minutes.

Title: Re: How to get rounded corners on Control Panel
Post by: Marky_1979 on May 16, 2007, 07:29:15 pm

Cheers guys i'll try that

Title: Re: How to get rounded corners on Control Panel
Post by: Chris G on May 16, 2007, 08:02:56 pm

Quote from: Marky_1979 on May 16, 2007, 05:59:22 pm

I have a router and router tool piece set but have no woodworking skills and have never used one of these things before.

Probably goes without saying, but do a practice run or two before you go after your CP.   :cheers:

Title: Re: How to get rounded corners on Control Panel
Post by: Tahnok on May 17, 2007, 05:31:42 pm

Here's a thread where I described one more way to put accurate curves down:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=65454.0