Angle Grinder Woodwork Test

This is just a quick test to see how easy/effective it is to do a roundover operation on wood using an abrasive flap disk in an angle grinder in place of the more traditional hand plane or router.

I Started with some well seasoned White Oak:

Put a 80 Grit flap disk in a small angle grinder:

And then made several passes along the edge with the disk. Doing several passes along the corner at about 45 degrees to put a bevel on it, then furhter passes as sharper and shallower: angles to feather out the corners into a pencil round.

The result:

Which struck me as adequate for some bench seating slats (which was what promoted the discussion). A final sand by hand with a foam sanding block will take out any marks left by the disk.

(with hind sight, 80g was nowhere near aggressive enough for white oak, which is an absolute pig to sand - 40g would have done the job more quickly!)