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   Guest_ | May 24, 1999 04:37am | #1

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   Check out a flex moulding at your supplier. It's not wood but will work fine if you are painting your trim.

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   Guest_ | May 24, 1999 07:05am | #2

   *10 inch diameter is a pretty tight bend. I just did a couple of 30" ones with wet towels and an iron. I hope they stay put.Might consider resawing two pieces of appropriate length, and gluing up alternate rips on a form (springback allowed for, of course).Bending over backwards, BB

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   Guest_ | May 25, 1999 03:37am | #3

   *10 inch is very tight to bend. If this is paint resaw and bend smaller pieces in a jig to match your radius. Reglue the pieces together and install.

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   Guest_ | May 25, 1999 03:56am | #4

   *You can separate the flat part from the ogee. Kerf the flat part and laminate the ogee.

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   seneca_ed | Jun 07, 1999 01:11am | #5

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   Prob. a bit late for this, but try bending ash or oak, straight grain, no knots, no cracks,no sapwood. Boiling an hour or more should make it like spaghetti. Clamp it quick to a jig and let it sit a day or so. Or try laminating quarter inch strips to jig with epoxy. West Systems epoxy is good. Router ogee after the lam has set. Easiest to ask a wooden boat builder to do it for you. They bend wood all the time.

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   yankeedam_ | Jun 07, 1999 01:45am | #6

   *Like they say, kerf the straight part. The ogee part, if you can buy or borrow the right router bit, can be coped or bandsawn from solid wood, then routed to profile. If you want even more convenience, rough-saw the semicircle oversize, and then carefully chisel the corner to accept it.--YankeeDam

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   Forida_Bob | Jun 07, 1999 01:45am | #7

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   I need to replace a small amount of baseboard that has failed because of the way it was bent. It is a one piece standard profile, about 4 inch flat with an o-gee on top, with a 3/4 inch quarter round shoe. I need to bend it to about a five inch convex radius. Kerfing the back will wreck the top. What would be the best wood? Steam, hot water? Thanks