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Cutting a Valance Pattern

In Naples, Florida, Bob helps Al Stiles build a jig valence over a kitchen window to match the decorative stiles on the kitchen hutch.
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Cutting a Valance Pattern

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" -Well, what are you up to?"

" -We're making this detail, the last little thing we have to put in over the top of the sink, and we're making this template. "

" -Well, you're making a template of one of the few decorative things that we're---- that was in the house really, the China cupboard, the frame. I can just see the builder of the house kind of making this for his bride, 50 years ago. How did they make it?"

" -Well, they used probably back---- and they probably used the coping saw."

" -Yes."

" -But we'll probably cut this out with our shaver saw."

" -Okay and this is the template. "

" -Right. Now, what we're gonna do is cut this out now with a utility knife."

" -Transferred on to the wood, cut it out, and we've got I and install a roller top----"

" -Go and do it outside."

" -Okay."

" -Okay, so you really have to cut carefully."

" -Yeah, you have to watch your fingers too."

" -You know, what's nice though is that you're getting the exact same tracing of a little bit of craftsmanship or artistry from maybe 50 years ago."

" -I'm sure somebody else had to do the same thing at one time."

" -Yeah, but the ones, it was never done by a machine that's what I'm----"

" -No, right."

" -It does look nice."

" -Okay."

" It's easy to come apart now."

" -There you go."

" -Here we go."

" -Now, this is the part that you want."

" -Yes, that's the template. "

" -Now, transfer this template onto this wood here, which is----"

" -What kind of wood are we using?"

" -That's fir---- clear fir."

" -Why did you choose clear fir?"

" -Well, there are no knots in this and it's easy to work with."

" -Sure, it's soft enough wood to cut."

" -So, now we just take this and put it right here, right this one. We'll hold it in this line that gives it a little edge to cut loose here."

" -So, you don't wanna come all the way to the outside edge----"

" -No."

" -of the wood, why is that?"

" -Well, if there's a little splitter here, it'll come off plus you try to make something ground and you come clear down to the flat part of it."

" -Yeah."

" -It'll leave a flat edge."

" -Okay."

" -So, can you help me hold just right on that line."

" -Yeah, I've got it."

" -We'll start marking this guy out. And now we've come down to the end here."

" -You'll flip it?"

" -We have just to take it and just transfer it down here to redouble the size."

" -Okay."

" -And see this little mat dried up?"

" -Here you go."

" -With this here."

" -Okay. Now, what kind of a saw will we use to cut this?"

" -We've got the---- we're gonna use the saber saw on this."

" -Power saber saw. -Power saber saw."

" -Okay, we'll get this in place out and you're ready to saw. I'll hold out the other end."

" -Okay. He still has his song."

" -Okay, you do a little patch up work there with the rats----"

" -Yeah."

" -the rats, then I'll take care of the sander."

" -Okay, real good."

" -And we'll get the pencil marks off."

" -Okay. Here we go. What do we have up here?"

" -We got a 34 of a one pleat that will hold the back side of this and then just some little rats going right under the hole [unk]."

" -The [unk] of your----"

" -Yeah, there you go."

" -your doors and we're ready to [unk] in."

" -Yeah, well, that's gonna look beautiful once it's painted white."

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