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Installing Baseboards and Making Moldings

Bob meets with Ryley to install baseboard and then goes on to Paul Morise's workshop to make the moldings.

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Installing Baseboards and Making Moldings

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" What do you think of that. This has some nice stuff. What they're doing is duplicating the originals doctor to 65 years -- so. There's no way that we can find in municipal Columbia eaten so it's been especially now. And it's a two piece baseboard which means that you've got the regular one by as well as the molding on top. Well we took a visit to Paul -- is workshop a couple of days ago and found out how he was willingness let's watch. Paul why did you decide to make the moldings out of poplar. Well Bob that -- good stable Hardwoods it's easy to work what it takes a good coat of paint. Is it expensive it's about a California board put them through reasonable partner is still rock now what's the first thing have to do to it the first thing we'll -- we'll taken. And knocked -- on one side to and then we'll take them figure. Afterwards on the planer to get rid of these irregularity that's correct OK. And we have to make several passes right right. Probably take about three passes in and out of there. We're. -- the next step on our ticket out of the incident and it final that -- that we need on the planer. Yeah this machine will smooth out the side it's still rough. But more importantly it'll be parallel. To the flat -- rate. And."

" OK now we're gonna take another table saw hair and ripped it down -- strips by the one nation that it was just."

" Dimension and tell us about this stop this machine. -- this is the -- what we're done this has specialized made up to about the molding the the house you can think of a cheaper kind of as a route -- table exactly and tell me about the night -- had it cut to fit that profile -- that cost and where did you -- it would have a debt because hundred point five dollars or local -- company makes -- work what's this. That's a feather board just the way of keeping the wood against the fence and preventing kickback all right let's get this started. Okay we'll put this automatic feeder into place here which is another -- that the future. We lock that down we'll burn zone. Also to go you're not if you can. Now -- a blower on -- act. On the day's work. You know match exactly what we have in the house."

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