Needed to make some casing for the interior of an Oak door. The casing is custom, picked out by the customer and I designed and had a knife made for my W&H molder. Half the house will have this molding around the doors and windows. It's a mix between Douglas Fir (VGF) and Poplar which gets painted.
Here the exterior of the door, I don't have an interior picture.
Got some Oak glued up in an arch for the front door.
Made the template a few days ago along with the other arch with the narrow center.
I didn't have clamp points, so I just glued some on.
Then the next day after I let the glue up dry overnight I started the milling process.
Came out nice, so relieved that there was no chunking out of the wood.
Here's the blank, screwed to the template and I scored a line with my razor knife where the shoulder of the profile is. Hopefully preventing an major chipout from happening.
I ran the molding through twice. As shallow of a cut that I could make while the molder still had a good grip on the blank. It's a pretty heavy cut, especially with Oak an only having a 2HP motor on the molder. And then the final cut which takes about 5/32" off the whole 5 1/2" wide molding. The score that I did with the knife actually worked. There were two small areas that might have become a problem if I hadn't done it. (The world may never know).
Here's the center. Another problem spot because of the grain switch over. Smooth as glass.....
And here's the tight radius of the faux ellipse.
The two boards are actually the same color, the whole molding came out of one 11" x 12' board. It's just the lighting. If I flip the camera angle around, they change color again.
Glad it came out nice. I really didn't want to have to bang my head against the building.