Can picture rail be produced from a template?
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You'll really need to track down a joiner's shop which has a spindle moulding machine.....whether the profile can be matched depends on which blades are available today.
There's a good chance the profile would get close - if you can find the aforementioned joiners shop! Is it a complex profile?
John
There's a good chance the profile would get close - if you can find the aforementioned joiners shop! Is it a complex profile?
John
To me, without any joinery background, it doesn't appear to be particularly complex.
Is getting a custom made profile cutter made expensive?
If you do all four walls then any slight difference will not be obvious .
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EddieM
If custom, then probably yes, prohibitively so, though costs have come down significantly. Have you got a photo.
I've seen home made cutters, made to match the profile, do the job.
if you are in a town, there is a good chance that local builders of the era your house was built will all have the the same or similar mouldings.
So you might get matching ones from a demoltion, or where some idiot is destroying the original features in order to reduce the value of his home.
I once lived in a district where the local timber merchant, when I took a skirting sample in, said that they produce batches for people restoring their homes. They could have made some just for me, but would load the price due to the effort of setting up the spindle cutter.
Note that a correct picture rail is not a typical moulding, it has a cut or lip at the top for the picture hook to hang over, so it cannot fall off. Dado rail may look similar, but will not do.
So you might get matching ones from a demoltion, or where some idiot is destroying the original features in order to reduce the value of his home.
I once lived in a district where the local timber merchant, when I took a skirting sample in, said that they produce batches for people restoring their homes. They could have made some just for me, but would load the price due to the effort of setting up the spindle cutter.
Note that a correct picture rail is not a typical moulding, it has a cut or lip at the top for the picture hook to hang over, so it cannot fall off. Dado rail may look similar, but will not do.
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its simple enough to grind the profile - and its circular cutting allowance when its used in a spindle.
steel, cutter blanks are available.
but the old Irwin(?) metal moulder planes are best for mixing and matching with their supplied custom cutters to achieve a near enough profile.
likewise you can router just about anything nowadays.
but as suggested above, you may as well buy off-the-shelf, nearest match picture rail or moulding lengths (dado rail?) and do the whole room in the same profile.
a trick we use in joining slightly different wood sections is to make the join by running a short length of casting plaster to blend the join in - after painting its near invisible.
for slightly bulkier sections you can, of course, build up the profile with different, smaller sections .
fwiw: i'd stay well away from spindle moulders.
steel, cutter blanks are available.
but the old Irwin(?) metal moulder planes are best for mixing and matching with their supplied custom cutters to achieve a near enough profile.
likewise you can router just about anything nowadays.
but as suggested above, you may as well buy off-the-shelf, nearest match picture rail or moulding lengths (dado rail?) and do the whole room in the same profile.
a trick we use in joining slightly different wood sections is to make the join by running a short length of casting plaster to blend the join in - after painting its near invisible.
for slightly bulkier sections you can, of course, build up the profile with different, smaller sections .
fwiw: i'd stay well away from spindle moulders.
Is that due to the cost?
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EddieM
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