I want to show you something that I have used all my life for 50 years this is
what I call a beading tool and what it is it's a screw in a block of wood and
it actually is multi-purpose really in that you can use this as a beading tool
so you put this onto your piece of wood and pull up here and I'll be showing you
how to work how this works but you round off this corner and you have a bead on
the edge of a piece of wood or you can just simply use one portion of it with a
single pull as a marking gauge so I'm going to show you how to make one of
these I just have a block of wood and I can give you the sizes this one is two
and a quarter by three and a quarter by one and a quarter thick just go from
corner to corner just to get the center of your block like that and then you can
just simply round these corners just about to any shape you like because your
hand will adapt to this shape and it doesn't have to be perfectly symmetrical
let this ... there is one thing before we get to that pot I want to drill a hole
in here that's going to receive the screw shank so I've picked the size of
my bit so that the threads can be seen on either side of the drill bit so that
the the threads bite into the hole of the drill if I just stand this up here yes I
might drill this perfectly 90 degrees in both directions but there are no
guarantees and I need this hole to be square through so that the level of the
head is parallel to the surface of the piece of wood so what I do is just to
make sure that I'm guaranteed I just make a square wall here
this doesn't have to be square here and the same on this edge here any
distancing will work I'm going half an inch in from the edge square into this
face here like that so I'm going to saw down this one on this one and I want
this the reason I did the knife walls was to guarantee that my saw is
dead square I saw down like that see down this face too so you normally would
just chisel into this just to give you a little bit of a step down rub the saw
right up against an eyeball and that is dead square so what we're after really I
just wanted this internal corner to be dead square in both directions that way
when I take my drill bit put it on the hole like this and then I want to drill
this I'm going to put this in the vise just for safety stop it from slipping
and turning and now I can stand this piece of wood on here like this put the
drill bit right into the hole start it then slide this in so it hits the bottom
and then I pull the top over and that guarantees that I'm square
to the edge I'm going to open this up a little bit give it a bit of a taper here
to receive the screw this screw then goes into this edge now I've used a what
they call a slot slotted head in the screw because the cross heads don't work
as well you don't have the groove that works as the cutter so I'm going to go
all the way down here until I'm almost level with the surface of the wood like
that so I'm just barely protruding just a little bit more like that's a no it's
level and then I can take a file on here
and file that because that gives me a cutting edge on the surface of the screw
and just file it back so I file until I'm level with the block of wood until
it doesn't take anymore and that gives me a very is flush now but it gives me a
sharp edge to the screw and that's what helps me get that definitive line so now
I back this out like that and that's given me exactly what I need for whoops
that gives me what I need I'm going to shape this now show you how quickly and
easily the shape comes back this out
so each corner shape this way take off the bulk of the waste like this a little
bit at a time when here it gets hard just go half way
I like this up partway should I say if you've got the rasp like this you can
take this to shape it if you don't have the rasp just glue some sand paper
double-sided tape with some coar sandpaper to the edge of the to the flat
of the piece of wood and use it again exactly the same way so here I can take
off the bolt this way till I get to this cross grain here then i go a little time
back to the rasp and that's how we shape the outside of this rasp now this block
can you see we're getting the semicircle of the elliptical surface we need
dead simple that's a useful tool and actually I adapt these for all kinds of
other applications too this is the most basic of applications to watch last one
now this last bit is important not to take too big of a bite just gradually do
it it's easier on the chisel is a little easier on your body and easier on the wood that's
got my block shaped it fits my hand surface rub bake the corners that is the
completed tool and that will last you for ever you can use this and you can
keep sharpening this surface too
there is the poor man's beading tool come marking gauge come just about
anything you can adapt it to and I'm going to show you a couple of variations
on this as well