Altar Progress: Bead Details

Above is the nearly completed base. I have added another layer of trim around the bottom perimeter of the base and have all the cove molding cut and laying in place on top of that. I am too worn out today to glue it in place so will do so tomorrow. I also have to install the beading that will go around the perimeter of the double ogee arches to cover up the plywood edges and give it a bit of panache. Then there is a lot of sanding followed by figuring out how I am going to install the top to the base and get those attachment points mounted. Then somehow, I need to get said base, some several hundred pounds worth of wood, off my workbench and down on the ground so that I can start on the top. I still haven't figured out how to do that. Perhaps there may be pizza and beer bribes to get some manual labor involved.

Above is a close up of the beading that I spent a fair chunk of time this morning making. I made it out of scraps, cutting in the bead detail and then ripping them from that scrap into uniform thicknesses that should bend around the curves of the ogee without breaking.

In order to help with that bending process, I'm forcing them around the pieces that I cut out of the middle to get them roughly bent which will hopefully make attaching them in place easier later on.