Follow-up on Antique Molding

6/18/04, 6:55 PM #1

Richard Gillespie
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Follow-up on Antique Molding

Richard Gillespie

>I installed the 9' of reproduction molding on the job yesterday. The Lee Valley Beader was used more than the Stanley 45. In particular, there were 5 blade blanks supplied with the beader and I was able to cut a custom one that I needed. As I said in my original post, I used Popular to be as easy on myself as possible.

I must say, I have really slid down the slippery slope. I used my great grandfathers miter box and saw plus a 10 point hand saw I bought on Ebay for $2.99 to do the job.

I do want to ask one question though. There is a numbering system and preset detentes on the turn of the century miter box that I don't understand. Apparently 4 = 45 degrees and the numbers go up to 24. What do they stand for?

Thanks so much for all the replies and help I was given on the original post.

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6/18/04, 10:54 PM #2

Darrell in Oakville
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Darrell in Oakville

>Richard,

Those numbered detents on your mitre box are for the number of sides of a frame you are cutting parts for. Want an 8 sided frame? Set the guide to 8 and start cutting. The 24 is (I think) for trimming the ends of window frames to match the bevel of the sill. I could be wrong (often).

Darrell

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6/19/04, 4:33 AM #3

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Glad to hear your repro molding project was successful.

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6/19/04, 12:32 PM #4

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Thanks for the follow up

jim_reed@marietta

>Always good to find out how the bear was really shot. That is good news on your beader. Modern ww seem to jump to the router too fast. Scratch beading is pretty easy and quick.

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6/20/04, 4:24 AM #5

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>According to Jim Barker on "The Slippery Slope," on the Millers Falls Langdon Acme boxes, the following angles were listed on the name plates, known as index plates by MF. I own a "Marsh Ayers" miter box that appears to be a Millers Falls copy with a similar chart, but it's out in the storage shed so I can't confirm what the chart says.

FIGURE /STOP /ANGLE(From Square)

24 Side /None /7��

20 Side /Positive /9�

12 Side /None /15�

10 Side /None /18�

8 Side /Positive /22��

6 Side /Positive /30�

5 Side /None /36�

4 Side /Positive /45�

Square /Positive /90�

My thanks to Mr. Barker for diligently copying the information off the company's name plate.

The original of the chart above

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6/20/04, 12:14 PM #6

Richard Gillespie
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Richard Gillespie

>Thanks! I truly appreciate all of the help I've received from the contributors to this forum. You-all have helped me increase my woodworking knowledge/experience greatly.

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6/21/04, 8:08 AM #7

paul womack
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Re: any details?

paul womack

>I (for one) would love to hear your experiences on filing and (perhaps) honing the cutter.

Assuming you didn't perform all the waste removal with the beader, what sequence of operations did you follow, and what was the cutting performance of the beader like on poplar?

Photos would (of course) be a welcome supplement to any report.

BugBear

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