Beaded face frame notching machine.

[Jar944]

I built a semi automated notcher for building beaded cabinet face frames. Its based around a router with kreg notching bit and the pneumatics are controlled with a couple solenoids and a foot pedal. Overall really a simple and cheap to build design, but is rather effective.

Its based loosely off the us concepts hauncher/ notcher, and actually ended up very close to a large hoffman dovetail machine. I didn't realize that until after I built it. The plus side of that is that It should work to cut hoffman dovetails if i ever wanted to.

 

[wtnhighlander]

Very slick! Frames like that are quite tedious with hand tools...

[drzaius]

I love the look of a beaded face frame and that setup gives great results.

[Jar944]

17 hours ago, wtnhighlander said:

Very slick! Frames like that are quite tedious with hand tools...

Thanks. They are still tedious, just much less tedious than before.

12 hours ago, drzaius said:

I love the look of a beaded face frame and that setup gives great results.

Thanks. I love a good beaded inset cabinet as well. Just something classic about it.

I built a manual version of this jig a few years ago and it just wasn't 100% consistent. This version has been extremely consistent and allowed me the ability to vary the face frame widths beyond the available kreg router bit sizes. 

[jussi]

Well done.  I have the kreg jig which works well for me since I’m a hobbies and I don’t do too much beaded ff.  But If I was a pro I I could see the huge time savings.