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Create Decorative Arch

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I Built My Daughter A Dream Bunk Bed

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What happens here

To create the arch shape, find the center point of the MDF panel. Use a screw partially driven into the center, attach a string with a pencil looped at the end, and use this to draw a perfect arc. Cut the arc using a circular saw for the straight parts and a jigsaw for the curved sections. Smooth the edges of the arch using an orbital sander and then a compact router with a round-over bit.

Goal: Fabricate a decorative arched top for the bed's headboard area.

Tools and materials

  • Circular Saw Ryobi — Cutting the straight sections of the arch
  • Compact Router Ryobi — Adding a decorative round-over edge to the arch
  • Jigsaw Ryobi — Cutting the curved sections of the arch
  • MDF Panel — Creating the arch
  • Orbital Sander Ryobi — Smoothing the cut edges of the arch
  • Pencil — Drawing the arc onto the MDF
  • Round-over Router Bit — Creating the round-over edge profile
  • String — Part of the string compass for drawing the arc
  • Wood Screw — Anchoring the string compass for drawing the arc

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off it's Arch time oh in case you don't know what happened to my voice if you haven't seen my last video I got an U restes for it's annoying I feel like I was like a rock concert but when it comes to actually doing the Arts we have our center part here that we need to be beautiful radius so put a screw down the middle here wrap string around it create a loop for the pencil to drag with and from where we start to all day around it's going to give us one perfect cut well one perfect tracing at least then we'll cut it [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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