Curved Stage Nosings

I've been working on building a new church in my work life for the past year.  We are closing in on completion now.  The stage has a thin hardwood flooring and is shaped in a semi circle.  The semi circle has a radius of 8'-2" that terminates into a 1-1/2" thick nosing to the lower floor.  The radius nosing had to be custom built for this application and I thought it would be fun to do in my shop.

Glue ups of double 3/4" for 1-1/2" thick nosing

 

Template for three radii

Nosing rough cut with band saw ready for smooth cut with router and template

Nosing inside (third) radius template

Routed inside radii, ready for outside radius

Shop Vac Redemption

Feeling more than a little foolish about the trash bag in the shop vac, I took another shot at the concept.  I imagined that if I had a bag with a little more [m]ass, the suction would not pull the sides into the filter so easily.  I though about just adding some ballast to the bag, but this seemed a little like admitting defeat.  When working on a new foot stool for my niece, I remembered that I had replaced the filter-bag on my dust collector with a less permeable one.  I had kept the original bag and it fit nice and snug into the shop vac canister.  I added a pair of my daughters tights to the filter for extra filter life and the system does work well after much more extensive testing.  So, I can now recommend this approach.

Shop Vac Redoux

Update:  Plastic bag in shop vac = bad idea.  I don't know what I was thinking--I knew that the plastic bag would get sucked around the filter and cause the vac to have no suction--similar to the water intake on an outdrive.  I have a heavy canvas bag that will fit into the canister--going to try that.  Maybe an internally expanding ring of some sort to keep the bag away from the filter, hmmm.....Maybe an MDF disk cut the ID of the canister that stays in the bag...