One of the reasons restoration and period remodeling is sooooo expensive is that every single piece of trim, molding, casing, etc is customized in some fashion because you just can't get this or that molding profile from your local lumberyard. So you get whatever is close to what you need then you turn your tablesaw or router table or even your handplane into the appropriate tool to mill up the profile that matches the rest of the house. In this case, the window and door casing in the rest of the house has a molding on its outside edge with bead on the inside edge and we need to match it.....make sense?
So I set up this conglomeration of clamps and festival of featherboards (actually there's only two) to hold the stock in the right spot as I run it over one third of a triple bead cutter on this here old makita table saw in the basement of the house we're working on.
A little closer up. Fence on the right with a featherboard holding the stock down and setting the location of the bead. Featherboard on the left holding the stock against the fence. You can see the cutter head of the 'blade' on the saw. I'm only using the right third of the cutter.
A top view maybe gives a little more clarity. Or maybe not.
The finished molding with the extra bead added on the right. When its finished and installed, it will be indistinguishable from the original.
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Fillinger wanted $5000 for about 150 feet of custom baseboards. Two styles, so they made 2 knives for $800 each. I ended up trading about 2 days of mowing for them which was totally worthwhile. =D
I'm amazed you can do that without having to make a custom knife!
A true master, my friend. Closest I've come to something that industrious lately was using the top of a CD case upside-down as a pot for my festive holiday tree. A tip of my hat to you!
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