Thread: Reproducing Moulded Skirting Boards

carba-tec have one ,
http://www.carbatec.com.au/machinery...planer-moulder
bit exie though but there are others around in a cheaper version that would suit , I think triton might even have made one
Rgds

Thanks Ashore,

I think I need to take half a day off and pay a visit to a few woodworking machinery stores.

Thanks and regards

Dan

Originally Posted by DanSplinters

I wish to replace some missing pieces of 10" (Approx) Moulded Skirting Boards.for our house (Circa 1927)

I have been looking for a matching profile for years without luck, so conclude that I will need to make it myself.

I had exactly the same problem with a 1870's house - searched salvage yards but could not find suitable skirting. Eventually took profile and started working out how to cut it with multiple passes of a router. Then realised that the cost of all those router bits would be daunting and the risk of cutting errors high.

Then someone suggested that a joinery might be able to make a french cutter for a spindle molder cheaper and better than my multiple router bits.

First two joineries were too busy for such a small job, then tried the biggest joinery in Hobart. Foreman looked at my profile and said "That looks like one of our standard patterns.." Apparently they had made my original skirtings in the 1870's and still had spindle molder cutters for that pattern hanging om the wall. They supplied the skirtings beautifully machined for a lower price than the M10 retail division of the same company would have sold me the timber.

You occasionally win.


Merry Christmas

Graeme