Edge Profile - Mid-Century Modern Furniture

The 2 most utilitarian looks that come to mind are A&C, and Shaker. Both of these are pretty much sans unnecessary adornment. It’s more common to see a straight looking edge on them, but makers still break that edge, and keep it square to look at, but lightly smooth on it’s edge so they aren’t sharp to the touch. A practiced hand can do this with a block plane, but many use a very quick pass of a folder over piece of sandpaper. Using a round over can get out of hand pretty quick. Not that a nice 1/8” roundover is a bad thing, and once set up on a router table you can quickly do all of the parts uniformly before assembly. For my $$$$$$ being uniform is better than any one exact look. Same can also be done with a very slight chamfer bit.

Whatever you do decide, practice first with some scrap that you have jointed square. Anything you use can make it a 1/8” round over pretty fast.

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