I have been house shopping latley and I just love houses but anyway.. There is A LOT of woodworking in houses like the furniture alone and the stuff on that hides the angle between the ceiling and the walls that is some fancy stuff just a lot of stuff...

How do they make this stuff? I was just curious it looks pretty complex...

If your talking about the crown moulding that runs around the ceiling, it is usually cut on a maching that resembles a planer. Instead of flat blades in a planer the blades have a profile cut into them to cut the moulding shape. Complex crown mouldings can sometimes have several parts glued together to get the final shape. This isnt the best illistration but the first pic in this pdf shows how the blades look http://www.woodmastertools.com/PDFs/Crowns.pdf .

Darren

Complex stuff made by some pretty simple processes - processes that can inflict injuries requiring lots and lots of stiches to your right thumb if you are not careful...or so I have been told, anyway :o

Scott

Things like crown molding are ususally made by a "shaper" which is what Darren described.

Larger and larger bits are becoming available for routers mounted under router tables too. I can make raised panel doors as well as the rails and stiles on a router table.

The part that will take your thumb off (or multiple fingers) is the table saw. It's just one of those things that you have to learn how to use safely. An outfeed table and proper blade gaurd are the two things that help the most. The only time the guard should come off is if you're using a dado blade to plough dados or rabbets.

Things like crown molding are ususally made by a "shaper" which is what Darren described.



It's actually a moulder. Here's the first example I got from Google. http://www.baileys-online.com/planer-moulder.htm

Ah, interesting. I was not aware of them. A shaper is similar, but the blade is mounted vertically like those used in a router table. A moulder mounts them horizontally like a surface planer.

I think the main difference is in the width of the stock each can handle.

Shapers: http://www.wmhtoolgroup.com/index.cfm?area=shop&action=vendors&vid=1&CID=103

Planers/Moulders: http://www.wmhtoolgroup.com/index.cfm?area=shop&action=vendors&vid=1&CID=91

Moulders generally have multiple heads, like 6, 8 etc and do work on all 4 sides of the part as it passes through.
Shapers usually have just one head and only shape one side of the part (usually manually fed).

cool info

It's actually a moulder. Here's the first example I got from Google. http://www.baileys-online.com/planer-moulder.htm

wow that is an interesting machine.. for 10k wow expensive... Any other ways to make it?

Hammer and a good, sharp wood chisel and you are in business....



Scott

Not cheap, but not 10K either. http://www.williamsnhussey.com/

Some mouldings (basic) can be made with a shaper or router table, but more complex profiles are much easier with a moulder. A Moulder is the only cost effective way, really. And for 10K, you get a pretty basic machine. :)

Hammer and a good, sharp wood chisel and you are in business....



Scott

waht you going to carve it?

ger,thats a pretty nice little molder for my dads shop he went with a wood master 725. Its a pretty nice unit the only down side to it is having to switch setups between molder, planer and sander. It will even do a curved piece of moulding for arched doorways which I wouldnt have thought it was able to do untill I saw it do it. Heres a link if you'd like to see it. http://www.woodmastertools.com/s/planers.cfm

Darren

waht you going to carve it?

a real man would have at it with a good penknife & stone