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Creating a Cornice Molding for the Dining Room

Bob helps Ryley create an elaborate five-piece cornice molding in the dining room. Ryley has created a raised working environment and begun cutting the many pieces need to create the ornate molding.
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Creating a Cornice Molding for the Dining Room

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" Now the the job and here is pretty elaborate to create this cornice right and obviously got to do all of it right up there on the ceiling yes so you've done the most important thing which is to lay out your saw horses around the perimeter of the room and throw off your planks those you -- have to worry about register. -- we're going to be up there for awhile there want to they're not safe and comfortable with what you it's night and it's it's a complicated cornice molding. And it's also complicated groove it's not four sides right of that a bunch of different angles going on this room actually has went to three walls and then. One wall is three sided so it's actually six walls yeah. Yes challenging granite that class with a five piece that loading that the architect has got us out putting up let's look at this. So this is the ceiling up here and we've got a stock. Crown molding that we got from our bodies geared Anderson equating that you got a flat piece of stock two pieces of filler with the Clinton minister who spent the long run I dental molding which backwards we'll go on the bottom. And which echoes the dental molding that's on the built in hutch figured -- room yeah. That's gonna be beautiful that it is going to be nice Heidi gets started well sorry snapped allies we know where it's not going to be gone on here. And we had to be canceled. How are going to get over this window. And it's going to -- like that. And it goes right across the whole top of the windows across the top of this window initially had a -- disclosure and here but we eliminated that because the distance. Between the ceiling in the top of the out. Of the casing is three eighths of an inch rock and went into the -- so we're determined look like that happens in a hundred years and -- behave what we have -- it near -- really picking up where does this dental molding goes on the very bottom line when done right the -- that right now. Okay and it's that is night. What did I just interrupt what we were -- on over there well I want to don't. -- at this -- this -- this. I -- this point here. Because the first people want to put on is over the fireplace I don't want any joints in here okay and it's too different angle on either end. And not the way we did this where it's not just now happening these -- I've got a line through here and I'll just take us a bevel square yeah. And senate on the wall. Absolutely outstanding point. For determining saying well. You can just set that in the we'll do a little just cut right density. The blade that angle okay. Now. The miter box here's gonna allow us to kind of replicate what he's done but we're still kind of looking at a rough situation for an estimate. Looks to me like it could be around 34 degrees sounds Omega test. That contact. With a piece of scrap. And you can just. -- Okay. Catches fasten 200 -- like kind of close let me just in maybe download maybe degree or two I'd say that Frey whatever you've got down on one and a -- when you have less right. Right. So I'm gonna go from thirty. Four down to 3332. Minute. -- pretty tight because it's already happening that's at 32 have to agree it's OK. And that determines the inside cut myself first taste -- going to be putting on is right over the fireplace very good. All right. This one is eleven feet and one half inch. Of course -- the crown holding back. Goes right up against the ceiling against your blue line there now. I was -- look it's great OK -- as we don't want to nail very close to the end because we might split the wood that come up. -- profit which by the fifth. We'll use a nail set to that it farther and Ryley and -- Okay. Putting in a six penny nail there I'm just using a four -- over this it."

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