I'll be building a playset for my kids this spring. Some of the commercial
ones I've seen have all the edges rounded over (1/2" radius). That seems
like an awful lot of quality time with a router.
I'd be interested to hear from others who built similar structures and can
comment on whether the roundover effort is worth it.
Thanks,
Eric
I've built a few of them. All of the edges get 3/4 roundover. Its a lot of
work, but it does a lot to keep splinters down...
-JD
"Eric Goldsmith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'll be building a playset for my kids this spring. Some of the commercial
> ones I've seen have all the edges rounded over (1/2" radius). That seems
> like an awful lot of quality time with a router.
>
> I'd be interested to hear from others who built similar structures and can
> comment on whether the roundover effort is worth it.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:16:23 +0000, Eric Goldsmith wrote:
> I'll be building a playset for my kids this spring. Some of the commercial
> ones I've seen have all the edges rounded over (1/2" radius). That seems
> like an awful lot of quality time with a router.
>
> I'd be interested to hear from others who built similar structures and can
> comment on whether the roundover effort is worth it.
In a word: yup. I rounded over all of the edges for any parts that little
hands would be grabbing onto (in effect, almost all of them). I'm very
happy that I did. I used cedar for mine and rounding over seems to keep
the splinters down. I only used a 1/4" roundover, though.
--
Joe Wells