Make Your Own Cove Molding
Safely "shape" wide concave cuts using your tablesaw and these techniques.
- • Creating Your Own Molding
- • Blade Selection
- • Build a Jig
- • Build a Jig (continued)
- • Molding the Cove
- • Molding the Cove (continued)
- • Creating Cove Profiles
Creating Your Own Molding
Off-the-shelf cove molding from the home center is convenient, but it limits your choices in widths, profiles, and wood species. For custom molding that perfectly matches your project, create your own. Best of all, you don't need fancy machines--just your tablesaw.
The photo at right shows the secret to doing this: Feeding stock at an angle across the blade cuts a concave profile. Using this procedure, we created a cove molding as an optional trim for the Entry-hall Bench in the second photo. With some experimentation, you can create a wide variety of cove profiles [Cove creativity, last slide] for your projects or maybe to trim a room.
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I used to save each page individually, as a new boy on the block, until I realised by saving one page I was saving all. Now, I know that's almost kindergarten stuff but I just tried printing the first two pages from my saved material and both printed perfectly well. Is there something in that to help someone? Cheers, Bob.
8/15/2010 04:05:25 AM Report AbuseI received this email on 8/12/10 and tried to print it on 8/13/10 but get a message that this page is not available. Gee, that doesn't give a person much time. What if I hadn't even opened it on 8/12/10?
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8/13/2010 03:28:38 AM Report AbuseUse copy and paste
8/12/2010 09:43:57 PM Report AbuseWood, thanks for the tips. IIatl, the 3/4 inch spacer is used if it's your plan to place the cove cut down the middle of your object board. The spacers will vary as your desired cut gets closer to one (or the other) edge of the object board. I've used only one guard rail when I've wanted the cove to resemble the cut made by a router for raised panels. But that isn't necessarily the safest method to use. Two rails are safer than one.
8/12/2010 10:56:17 AM Report AbuseI'm a newbie, so will someone explain the purpose of the spacer? Is it to offset the beginning of the cove so it won't begin right at the edge of the board? Why is a 3/4" spacer suggested?
8/12/2010 10:29:09 AM Report AbuseI'd sure like it if there was a single download button for these plans...please ADD A SINGLE DOWNLOAD BUTTON TO ALL THESE PLANS->A SINGLE DOWNLOAD BUTTON THAT WORKS...PLEASE-> THANKS SO MUCH! tjl
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