> That's basically what I am doing, building new doors to replace the 60's
> knotty pine look, painting the whole thing white and puting them back on
> with European hinges. The big investment is the matched set of router bits
> to do the cope and stile and a raised panel bit.

My wife would like raised-panel knotty pine, but pine that straight is pricy!

My plan is to do the raised panel on the table saw (not curved, basically just an angled rabbet) and make the frame straight with a dado for the panel. I'll just run a roman ogee bit around the opening.

> Here is the Idea

> On my next boat, I need to do is find someone out there who wants to build
> cabinets and has a set of bead and cove router bits. We can swap for a
> couple of months and pool our resources. I get to mill my own strips and
> someone else gets new kitchen doors. Better yet I'll throw in my Guillimot
> forms for a two router jig for doing cove and bead at the same time.

Brilliant! Anyone want to rent out some bead & cove bits for Jack and I? I'll cover postage and sharpening/replacement if necessary.

Shawn

> Anyone on this BBS want to take me up on this? I remember a thread a few
> months ago someone was talking about a leasing forms. Each person pays a
> fee to the designer and sends the forms on to the next person in line. The
> router bits work even better for this concept because they have a high
> initial cost but are used for a short period time to shape the strips.
> Over the course of the winter 4-5 people could share the cost of bits.

> Start throwing in some high priced but specialized tools and maybe we got
> something here.

I don't think I can easily swap my table saw or the concrete tools I have at work. ;)

Shawn