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Reproducing Traditional Molding: Capturing a Profile

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All Videos in This Series:

1. Introduction
2. Saving the Alvah Kittredge House
3. Capturing a Profile
4. Transferring a Profile
5. Four Essential Planes
6. Removing Material
7. Using a Shooting Board
8. Interview with Bill Rainford

At the jobsite, preservation carpenter Bill Rainford uses a modern molding comb to make an imprint of the molding’s surface

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Reproducing Traditional Moldings 
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