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Hello, all. Hope this finds you all well.
I am mid-restoration/repair of a really nice olf mahogany table a friend of mine inherited. It was a wreck, but I have it mainly under control.
I'm just looking for advice on how to cut these small pieces of trim. All told, I will need about a foot of it to replace where it is broken or missing.
All I have figured out so far is to go ahead and carve it into a big mahogany block and then saw it off at the appropriate dimensions for width and thickness. What I actually have no idea how to do is to carve such a tiny profile. As the second picture shows, it is a quarter round about 1/4" tall. It's upside down in the picture, so, working from top to bottom in the picture, it is a convex round, then a tiny groove, then a tiny cove, so that the whole has a gentle S profile, more or less.
I have carving gouges. They all seem a bit too big to do this profile. I could probably manage, but I am just wondering what is the "correct" way to cut this trim?
Thanks.
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Make a profile of what you need and then a scratch stock from that.
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03-06-2018, 08:35 PM
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(03-06-2018, 08:29 PM)MarkSingleton Wrote: Make a profile of what you need and then a scratch stock from that.
heh, now I feel like an person (begins with an i and ends with a t). Of course that is the correct way to do it. Thanks, Mark.
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Hey, I'm the guy who spent twenty minutes in his shop today looking for something
that was right in front of me!!
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If I were doing it, I would use H&R planes to make about a foot of trim and then cut it to fit. Another way is to glue a block of wood into place and just carve it by hand. But there is a temporary way. You can use tinfoil to make a mold for a piece of paraffin wax trim. Then you can paint the wax and glue it into place as a temporary fix. I fixed a picture frame that way and the temporary fix worked for years.
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(03-06-2018, 08:29 PM)MarkSingleton Wrote: Make a profile of what you need and then a scratch stock from that.
+1
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Check out the “Skill Building” section of my website, I have three videos on making and using scratch stocks, and on making your own blades. Making a Scratch Stock
The scratch stock is the perfect tool for this.
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I started in on making my scratch stock almost immediately after Mark gave me the head slap I needed. But real life got in the way, and I was temporarily overwhelmed with paying refinishing jobs, so I had to set aside this project (which is an unpaid favor for a friend). Able to catch my breath today, and I finished up the project.
The fence is a mahogany block. I didn't notice until I had it selected and roughed to size that it had a split in it. So I took some scrap tulipwood and glued it on the bottom where the split is. Then I realized that very hard tulipwood made a much better bearing surface for the thumbscrew that holds the arm in the fence than the walnut I had picked out to be the arm, so I glued a second scrap on there, too. So it is mahogany and tulipwood on the fence and walnut and tulipwood on the arm. The cutter is a piece of a Crown card scraper I never use.
Just finished it with some BLO.
It has a bunch of serious mistakes, but it is functional, and I'm actually pretty happy with how it came out.
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That's a pretty flash scratch stock. Nicely done.
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(03-25-2018, 05:50 PM)MattP Wrote: I started in on making my scratch stock almost immediately after Mark gave me the head slap I needed. But real life got in the way, and I was temporarily overwhelmed with paying refinishing jobs, so I had to set aside this project (which is an unpaid favor for a friend). Able to catch my breath today, and I finished up the project.
The fence is a mahogany block. I didn't notice until I had it selected and roughed to size that it had a split in it. So I took some scrap tulipwood and glued it on the bottom where the split is. Then I realized that very hard tulipwood made a much better bearing surface for the thumbscrew that holds the arm in the fence than the walnut I had picked out to be the arm, so I glued a second scrap on there, too. So it is mahogany and tulipwood on the fence and walnut and tulipwood on the arm. The cutter is a piece of a Crown card scraper I never use.
Just finished it with some BLO.
It has a bunch of serious mistakes, but it is functional, and I'm actually pretty happy with how it came out.
Looks good. Pull that profile stock up in close to the beam so it doesn't have quite so much flex when "scratching" and you should get a better surface. It may start to chatter of you work with it hanging out so far.
Good luck fabricating the replacement parts.
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