we are trimming out a large farm house with about a million bullnose corner joints. we are making the trim out of 1x8s and rope moulding, running our corner joints on a crooked fence on the table saw and cutting 22 1/2 degree mitres for a pretty tolerable finish. Lots of work but will look nice in the end.
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Wow.
Looks great.
So, 2 down, 999,998 to go?
agreed. wow.
looks great.
but have one question.
I think U covered it when U said "running crooked over the table saw" ...
for the same look ... U could either cove the base ...
or ...
remove some drywall.
I shoot for taking away the easier material.
U think it would be easier/faster to mark then chop out the drywall and run that face base across full thickness?
never saw rope in base before ... looks cool.
will be waiting for finish pics.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Jeff,The base is coved on the back sides, that is what i did with the crooked fence on the table saw, oh and i forgot to mention it is a steel frame house, no studs or plates to nail to either.
THat looks very good !! Also I know that is a time consuming job, hope your making what you deserve. Again good job.
Dave
sweet.... i hate when someone posts details i have to aspire to.......
very nice work...
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Any chance of posting a pic of that fence setup?
sure i will snap a picture when i go to the shop.
Woo Hoo! Pretty pretty.
Love the buried rope detail.
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Try hollowing the corners with the front roller of your belt sander. Worked perfect for me. Nice work, Rich.
i hate belt sanders, mine are nearly orphans, i woked for a contractor once that thought a belt sander made a good jointer, his work sucked.
That's wicked sharp!
Nice stuff bb....very nice stuff.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
Nice job on the rope detail, there are times when I really dislike that stuff.
sorry for the delay on the set up pic, computer crashes and other such events have slowed down a rather slow fellow even more than usuall. a note on set up, put fence on back side of blade where the cutting action will push piece into fence, cut only about 3/16" of depth at a time, use push blocks that cover entire piece to help hold it down on the saw table, as well as having a full backup hook to eliminate tear-out at finish on cut. Be carefull, if it dosent seem safe to you, it probably isn't.
NICE!
Love the look of it, but Hate working w/ rope always go thru tons of stock just to get miters pattern to line up, whats the trick?
Wow ! that looks really nice... I like it alot.
Hello. What does "running our corner joints on a crooked fence" mean?
Thanks
if you will look at the pic in the first post you will see how the corner piece that has a 22 1/2degree cut on both ends also has the back of the board coved to match the radius on the bullnose wall, the crooked fence is the way that i cove the corner piece.
Great work. Thanks
Interesting way to deal with that, and very nice install. What size blade did you use... and, could you run them all at the same time, or have to fit the cove depth for each corner?
And, how'd you hold them down?
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Edited 2/21/2008 12:14 am ET by Snort
snort;Yes i ran them all at the same time to the same depth, 10" rip blade, taking about 3/16" per pass. I used a full cover push stick with a hook on the end to prevent tear out, and a block on the side to prevent the piece from rotating under the push stick. I determine how wide to make the pieces and have both mitres cut before coving.
That's an impressive detail. Nice work.
Sounds like it probably took less time than cutting the beads... how many corners were there?I've cut a bunch of big, coved crown that way, the cleaning up was the pain. Those hidden coves seem easy,Again, nice solution, consider it swiped<G> Winterlude, Winterlude, my little daisy,
Winterlude by the telephone wire,
Winterlude, it's makin' me lazy,
Come on, sit by the logs in the fire.
The moonlight reflects from the window
Where the snowflakes, they cover the sand.
Come out tonight, ev'rything will be tight,
Winterlude, this dude thinks you're grand.