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Stopped Moulding Advice

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Stopped Moulding Advice

8/23/04, 3:49 PM #1

Brad in Ottawa
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Stopped Moulding Advice

Brad in Ottawa

>My latest project calls for two firsts for me, blind dovetails and stopped moldings.

I was hoping to get some advice on the stopped moldings. I have successfully made a ton of molding in the past but a stopped molding kind of puts a whole new twist on things.

Essentially the corners of the cabinet are eased by using a quarter round molding. The molding starts approximately 3" from the bottom and ends 3" from the top of each corner.

I do not have a screaming routah, nor do I ever intend to. Apart from that I am open to tool acquisitions. (My current relevant tool arsenal includes a few woodies (including a Quarter round profile), a 55 with a ton of profiles and some carving tools.)

Any advice would be appreciated.

Brad

Re: Stopped Moulding Advice

8/23/04, 4:46 PM #2

David Miller
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Re: Stopped Moulding Advice

David Miller from Iowa

>I've done this successfully with both a concave spokeshave and a scratch beader. Mark the depths with a marking gauge and go slow. Practice a bit first and it should go easy. It's easier to cut the stopped part from the top in as opposed to the bottom up, but watch the grain on the end that goes against the shave. I sometimes carve the against-the-grain stop with a utiliy knife and finish it off with the shave using very light cuts. The beader is probably better on tricky wood.

If your design is flexible, you might switch to stopped chamfers, they are so easy with a chamfering shave or a drawkife with the depth gauages on it.

Good luck, David