Hello Mr. Rogowsky ,my name is Razvan and I live in Montreal,CANADA.
I’m a cabinet maker working for a canadian woodworking company, but not from a long time,only a year and a half,since I arrived in Canada from Romania ,where I was cabinet maker too.
I would like to ask you ,because I don’t know how to do it,how can I make curved moldings from solid wood with differents widths and lenghts,differents shapes, differents radius ?I want to make a frame molding for a picture and all the corners to be conected between them with curved moldings.The interior radius is 4″ and exterior radius 8″. I think the terminology for this kind of frame molding is sectional molding,but I’m not sure.
Thank you you for your time and keep going, because I learned a lot from you reading Fine Woodworking Magazine and on the internet on Fine Woodworking.com.
I’m sorry for my English,but I learned it here in Canada reading books and speaking with people at my work. I hope you’ll understand my question.Merry Cristmass!
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Razvan,
Thanks for your question. Curved moldings can be made up on the router table. Use templates to create your shapes. Lay out your curves on some 1/4" plywood or MDF and cut them using a circle jig on the band saw. Or you can free hand cut them and sand them with a spindle sander
right to your lines.
These will be the patterns for your corners. Mill up your stock and rough cut the shapes. Rout them exactly to size using a pattern routing bit and a good hold down system like DeStaco clamps. These quick action clamps will hold your work steady and keep your hands clear of the bit as you rout the shapes.
A profile bit can cut a shape into the molding stock with a bearing
riding along the edge of the molding. An alternative is to use a shaper cutter and run your corner piece in a cradle attached to your fence. This cradle will have the same shape as the outside of your corner piece. Use a featherboard to hold your corner piece in tight to the fence and onto the cradle. Then feed the work on edge in the cradle to cut your profile.
Photos of these operations and other options for shaping moldings can be found in Lonnie Bird’s excellent book The Complete Illustrated Guide to Shaping Wood. Happy New Year. Gary
Thank you,Mr. Rogowski.
Have a good health and happy new year,too!
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