About Wood Moldings

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About Wood Moldings

• Molding is carved wood placed on the walls of
  homes or businesses. Exterior and interior trim
  can be decorative and protective! Installing
  interior wood trim and hardwood moldings can add
  character to a room and cover blemishes and ugly
  drywall joints. Although most people think of
  wood moldings as decorative, they can also serve
  to protect from wall damage, drafts, and wood
  expansion and contraction problems while adding
  value to your property!

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What is it used for?

• Base

• Base

• Chair

• Crown

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What are your choices of moldings? How many
different types of moldings are there?

• Thats a good question. There are thousands of
  different moldings to choose from. If you dont
  find one that you like you can have one made
  special for you!
• Some companies do custom grounding of knives as
  well to match profiles - combinations are
  unlimited

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How expensive is it?

• Molding is anywhere from .75 to 7.50 a foot or
  more.
• Some places sell moldings in bundles of board
  feet or they place a minimum board foot amount.

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What types of wood can you use?

• Any type of soft or hard wood is possible. Maple
  Oak Cherry Butternut Walnut Ash Poplar exc.

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Stained or Painted

• Yes, usually done to soft wood like pine because
  a cheaper wood can be stained to resemble a more
  expensive wood. Rarely is staining done to the
  hard woods because why would you want to cover up
  their natural beauty.

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Lengths

• One can buy wood in all different lengths or he
  can cut it himself to fit his project. Usually a
  business sells wood in lengths of 8, 10, 12,
  14, and 16.
• Some places sell moldings in bundles of certain
  board feet or they place a minimum board foot
  amount.

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How is molding made?
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• Each Molder has a number of heads or knives
  that are used to carve the molding usually five.

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• Each head takes off a certain side of the molding
  as the board is being fed through the molder.
  Sort of like an assembly line where each person
  dose a job to complete the project. This is what
  the molding machine is doing giving each head a
  part of the board to cut.

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• In each head you can place up to four blades for
  a better or smoother cut. Some moldings dont
  require that many because your only taking off a
  little wood but others your taking off a full ½
  inch, and it also depends on the type of wood.
  When using four blades instead of two each knife
  has less work because its sharing the burden.
  Also with more knives you dont have to sharpen
  them as often.

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• If you want a different type of molding you just
  have to change the knives in the heads to the
  knives that give you the molding that you want.

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• As the board is being fed into the molder there
  are air pressure rollers that keep pressure on
  the board to keep it from moving so the cut is
  clean and square.

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• In completion a board is able to be turned into
  an unlimited number of different moldings.