: Thanks, guys. Sounds like this is one thing you definitely need to think
: about beforehand. glad I asked.

If you made your own bead and cove strips you should still have the router and the bits, so you can set up those tools for cutting either new beads or new coves. Then shape your cheater strips from scraps and use the router to restore the edge shape to whichever edge you trimmed. With care you can make multiple passes through the router, letting that tool remove small amounts of wood on each pass until the part fits properly. If you use an angled guide (like a taper jig on a table saw) to align the strip you'll have better control. Don't try to do the job in one pass. You would be taking off too much wood and it might kick back at you.

If you bought premilled strips then you should work on only the bead edge. Pop a dowel, or another strip, into the cove of the one you are working with so that this area is not damaged. You can use a spokeshave or a regular plane to carefully reshape a new "bead" edge on the cheater strip you make.

With a plane you can very quickly cut a three sided shape, something like a truncated triangle shape, on the "bead" edge of your cheater strip. It won't be a perfect bead, and it doesn't have to be, as this area is just going to be glued inside the cove of the adjoining strip.

PGJ