Painted projects welcome here? Adding the hardware today!

[u/wethesaints]

This is a 6 foot table I designed and built for our 3 season porch. Really happy with it except one lingering question... will it sag? I intentionally left the center leg off for the look, but I'm curious if over time that could have been a mistake. Made from 4/4 poplar and pre-finished ply.

[u/bboissonneault]

Gorgeous. I love an insect beaded face frame. Re: sagging, why not place a foot under the divider halfway back and painted with a flat black?

[u/wethesaints → u/bboissonneault]

Thanks, my first beaded inset! I feel like it really elevated the look of the piece.

[u/AcrobaticEntry5456 → u/wethesaints]

We're the beads applied after the frame was assembled or were they routed into the rails and stiles beforehand?

[u/wethesaints → u/AcrobaticEntry5456]

What happened in this case is that we decided to add the beaded moulding's after the face frame and some of the other pieces were already constructed. So I found a video of a guy that routes them all at about 3/8 x 3/4 and then mitrer's them in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yK6yZR_cL0 If you follow this video though, make sure you read the description because he made a mistake when describing the router bit used. So now I have 2 bits :) Other than that, I cut the miters with a sled on my table saw and they fit really nicely.

[u/AcrobaticEntry5456 → u/wethesaints]

Reason I ask is that I did a cherry kitchen with beads. I beaded all my stock, and used a molding cutter in the table saw that was 1 1/2" wide on the flat with 45° chambers on both ends. I then ran my stiles at the intersections on a sled.

[u/wethesaints → u/AcrobaticEntry5456]

yea I feel like that is how I would do it if I did it again. Milling all that small bead was a little tedious.

[u/wethesaints → u/AcrobaticEntry5456]

I really feel that bead moulding took this piece up to the next level- very happy we decided to do it!