How to Replicate Molding Profiles | This Old House

This Old House general contractor Tom Silva reveals various means and methods of making your own authentic reproduction moldings. (See below for tools.)
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Tools for Replicating Molding Profiles
router
router table
table saw with molding cutter head
molding machine
router bits
molding cutter knives
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[@RicardoJunqueira]

Great set of tools! And I wonder, how many companies still use FAXES to receive orders for products nowadays.

[@bigmacdaddy1234]

US Govt still uses mail and fax.

[@loktom4068]

I really like that pimped duct from your trim making machine.

[@heroknaderi]

Tommy is the man 😎😎

[@joadhenry]

where can you get that red moulder machine he used at the end of the video?

[@williamdharha7691]

What company carries a custom knife to cut molding?

[@zirioz]

What is a FAX?

[@Maxid1]

Man, I don't know about that molding head cutter. If you don't have a take up platform for the out feed side of your table saw you're going to get some serious snipe at the end of your door panel.

[@Coco-ej6un]

What is the name of the molding machine?

[@Ghostrunner55]

So the trick is to call up a company and fax them a profile.

[@rawbacon]

*FAX*

[@Maxid1]

0:41 Aaaaaaah, that molding didn't match.

[@32937isready]

I carve all my molding by hand.

[@Psychlist1972]

Dust collection is for other people. :)

[@JoeFeser]

He did a sloppy ass job of tracing the profile.

[@Psychlist1972]

***** I know. They should have shown a profile created from that drawing ;)

[@Maxid1]

Pete Brown
My question is, why send them a tracing when you could just send them a slice of the actual molding? Where I come from , that's just one more saw cut than he already made to do the tracing. And with a cross section, you don't have to guess at dimensions.

[@JoeFeser]

Maxid1 It is rare that you can cut a sample. A lot of the times, a sample is taken in the field. Either way, the owner should send the sample in case adjustments are made. This is not a service that some one off project person will even attempt, that person will just go to the Home Depot or Lowes.

[@Maxid1]

***** I like duplicating stuff. That molding to me looks like upside down bannister. That's how I would have gone about it but if you're matching existing, I'd think the molding would have to be duplicated exactly.
But I agree, unless you're in the trades or you do an awful lot of molding, you're not likely to have a molding machine.

[@altamiradorable]

"Put it in my fax machine" Yeah right !

[@Stop..carry-on]

Best solution is a spindle moulder all day long -

[@spencershifflett5095]

Best solution is a Weinig

[@sampson2525]

Tom silva is cool. Other guy is a dork

[@Carpenters_Canvas]

He don’t know no better

[@aleidabianchi1434]

Make it wooden with the help of the Woodglut instructions.

[@muddy_armadillo]

wow this is old.

[@slater1993]

not even close

[@slater1993]

CALL PLZ YANKEE WOOD plz