Post #783822 by Prikli Pear on Sun, Feb 11, 2018 9:07 PM

That's the spirit, rgordo! Look, I'd never done any detail work with a router until those first triangle base boards upstream. All I'd ever done was 1/2 inch deep dado cuts. When you lock down a straight edge to act as a rip fence, those are super easy. Decorative router work? Not nearly so cut and dried. There's a steep learning curve, but the good thing is that all you need is maybe 10 minutes practice on scrap wood, then you've got it. Dremel's a little different, but the good thing there is that the scale is so much smaller that screw-ups are easier to cover up. :wink:

The best advice I can give is to plan it out. Cut out templates in card stock if you're going with a repeating pattern, and trace that onto the wood to guide you. And don't get too complicated to start out. Stay simple, and increase the amount of detail when you feel ready for it.

[ Edited by: Prikli Pear 2018-02-11 21:08 ]