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Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
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Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
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" First let's talk about -- to one as -- near an interesting company listening to. They're a thirty year old. Molding manufacturing company they've come up with a new product called Windsor one. Which is an engineered lumber engineered board edge glued finger jointed together. Grown out of radio out of pine and the reason for doing all that engineering is to make shoes you've got great stability in great stability in the product exactly. They usually outside with great success and what they're finding is that carpenters were bringing them on the inside to trim out -- house and say. Uses a fact and irritation around a door yeah. They approached me about finding that come up with a line of moldings that didn't just want another line of moldings they want something special. My background in historic millwork. Promoted me go to these old pattern books we came up a lot of moldings that are appropriate for. Houses today now let's talk about these is you've actually got. An Asher Benjamin book here right and this goes back to the early 1800 -- correct pattern books were very popular. Means of communicating to carpenters and other people that time the way the orders were the worst out of the proportions of the orders and all the details. Asher Benjamin this book is an 1833 book. Very popular this is actually the seventh edition of it and 1850 -- can see the kind of influence and and popularity it had in any case builders would look at books like this and that would go and design their moldings based on the hand planes that they had or carried in the box exactly. And we've got quite a few of the hand planes today which going to be using movement later on in the show of it. The line that you've designed here comes from the colonial revival right yeah these are these are mainly for the colonial market there's there's four there's four lines Thursday classical cloning which we've used in this in this dining room here. There's the colonial revival which is from a 1920s. Manufacturers book. As well as there's another parent a classical craftsman. And then we've got a Greek revival so there's there's four from four of the popular periods of American architecture awarded choose for a correct excellent."
