Applied moldings

[wellywood]

I'm a bit ashamed having to ask this question but SWMBO asked me how the applied moldings were made which are on her Singer sewing machine cabinet which I'm busy re-furbishing and I couldn't tell her.
Bearing in mind these are mass produced cabinets dating from around 1920, how would these have been made in their hundreds?

 

[spinks]

Cast??

 

[carlb40]

Cast??

Interesting, any idea how they cast timber?

I guess depending on the age they might simply have had xxx amount of men all just making mouldings? Or even one pattern and maybe a form of overhead copy router type machine?

 

[AndyT]

I think a machine would have been used. As Carl suggests, overhead copy routers go back quite some time. James Watt, of steam engine fame, developed one for copying sculpture which you can see in his preserved workshop, now on display in the science museum.
IIRC, carving machines were on display in the 1851 Great Exhibition, but so were quite a lot of things.

 

[Preston]

I too would be interested in how they are made, these look to be the same as those.
These are solid beech and they seem to have been made by some sort of press.

 

[wellywood]

I did wonder about pressing or stamping but I would have expected to see some compression of the fibres which doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[Preston]

This closer picture gives a clue that they may have been pressed or stamped, it's still got pieces that needs removing.

 

[bugbear]

This closer picture gives a clue that they may have been pressed or stamped, it's still got pieces that needs removing.

Surely it could equally (and more likely) be incomplete cutting?

I don't think beech is known for its compressibility!

BugBear

 

[Preston]

I don’t know, I'm only guessing.

 

[spinks]

Cast??

Interesting, any idea how they cast timber?

I guess depending on the age they might simply have had xxx amount of men all just making mouldings? Or even one pattern and maybe a form of overhead copy router type machine?

Doh!!! I thought they were the metal ones off the treddle base!!!