How do you make an LS custom Profile

[fifo28]

So I have looked everywhere and I know you can make a custom profile - the question is how and how well does the custom profile work.

 

[GarryMartin]

This might help...
http://festoolownersgroup.com/festool-how-to/ls130-round-over-bead-custom-pad/

 

[ear3]

It really depends on how detailed the moulding profile is.  There's a certain level of detail -- like if the profile has small beads and/or coves, like one produced by a classical profile router bit -- that will be too refined for any pad you make on your own.  I would definitely experiment on a sample piece before you use it just to make sure you don't ruin the profile.  If you have a stationary sander (like a disc or an edge sander), it's fairly easy to erase a custom profile you've already made and then cut a new one.

 

[anthonyz]

Steve at the Vegas training center showed us to use some double stick tape to adhere sandpaper to the piece of Molding you are trying to replicate, grit side up, the with a blank profile pad sand the pad to the shape of the molding then set up the pad to take the sand paper.

Hope that makes sense. If I had the sander I would do a video. Saving up for my Saw stop first.

Paul Marcel  Gives a description toward the end of his video on the LS 130

 

[Nippychippy]

I thought the best way for this sander was to stick the sand paper to the profile rough side up then with a new pad with no sandpaper on it you sand the foam pad