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Woodworking Basic Introduction To Wood Molding
To the Greeks and Romans, proportion was in the design of everything they built. For visual appeal, their structures relied on a logical and harmonious progression of architectural elements, one atop the other, from plinth to cornice. Some 2000 years later, furniture makers of the Georgian period used small-scale versions of the same elements to decorate the interiors of their patrons' homes.
Today, molding is a broad term that encompasses all interior trim applied to walls and ceilings, such as baseboard, chair rail, picture rail, and crown molding. Woodworking Plans Website presents instructions for making and installing these different kinds of molding.
Whether it is the angular trim of an Arts and Crafts-style home or the formal cornice of a Victorian parlor, molding serves a functional as well as a decorative role. Baseboard, for example, is designed to cover gaps between the wall and the floor, while crown molding serves the same purpose along the ceiling. Chair rails prevent chair backs from nicking walls and paneling, and picture rails provide a handy way to hang art without marring walls.
The advent of the molding machine in the 19th Century made it possible to massproduce this functional and decorative material. Today, you can buy the most popular profiles of crown molding and baseboard at virtually any hardware store. Specialized millwork shops stock a wider range of profrles, and some will custom-grind special knives so that an antique pattern can be reproduced. But molding is also easy to make in the shop. All you need is a table saw with a tilting arbor and a molding head or a table-mounted 1/2-inch router-and a bit of imagination. If you plan to produce a great deal of molding, a shaper or a molder/planer maybe a worthwhile purchase.
Installing molding can be a simple task once you have mastered a few basic principles. Use longer pieces for the main rooms so that there will be fewer joints in these locations. Save shorter pieces for inside closets and less conspicuous areas of the home.Visit the Woodworking Plans TV pages for more info..
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How can I put a waterproof/dishwasher-proof finish, that is safe for food, on a bamboo cutting board?
I have a bamboo cutting board that recently got a mold (I live in a very hot and humid climate and the board gets wet quite a bit). I killed the mold but am looking for a solution that will let me clean it properly with little to no effort, and will also allow it to stay wet without consequence. I don't want this to have a bad effect on my kitchen knives or the food being prepared on/eaten off it. I was thinking along the lines of soaking it in linseed/mineral oil mix, epoxying some marble on one side, paint on the other, and polyurathane seal the whole thing. I don't honestly know if that is a sound theory or not, and I don't know if that will dishwasher-proof the cutting board. Any ideas?
You should never "soak" a wooden cutting board. I've used one for years and I use mineral oil that is food safe. Allowing your cutting board to become soaked in water or putting it in the dishwasher will cause it to crack. Soaking the wood was probably what caused the mold in the first place.
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