Great post! Can you post a photo of an example spade bead cutter? -Tim
----- Original Message ----- From: 'joe biunno' via Legacy Ornamental Mills To: Legacy Ornamental Mills Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:46 PM Subject: Re: Diamonds and Pearls. here is some bead work we have done in the past...most often, we will buy or cast ourselves(rubber molds, resin material), lengths of beading(usually about 12" long and half round) in the diameter necessary for the job and then glue into channels made on the legacy...this seems to be the most cost effective method...the beading we buy can be steamed a bit, and it then becomes flexible enough to easily conform to any shape...when the beading tapers from a small diameter to a larger diameter, it is necessary to just hand carve the beads...can't seem to get around that...the photos show some samples from our showroom...the poles are 2" in diameter, grooves cut on the legacy, beading glued in place...the diamond pattern on the one pole has decorative brass nail heads set in place where the points intersect...plain round nail heads can be used in place of the decorative ones at a very inexpensive cost...there is quite a selection of designs from the nail head source, so you can really go wild here in accenting your turnings...the finials have some simple beading set into a groove and the one finial has some tapering beads that were hand carved...we have a set of bead cutters that we made from various diameter spade drill bits, so long as the bit had a 1/4" diameter shank so we could mount it into a router...we first cut down the length of the bit for safety reasons...we then ground out the end of the bit to a half round shape and the desired diameter...this allows us to put one bead next to the other, and thus a string-of-beads effect...the diameter of the bit will dictate the diameter of the bead...and the bit will only have one cutting edge, as it would be near impossible to think that the bit could be sharpened to the point of having two cutting edges...but one edge seems all that is necessary to do the job, as it is just a kiss cut...joe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Legacy Ornamental Mills" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to legacy-ornamental-mills+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to legacy-ornamental-mills@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/legacy-ornamental-mills. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
