making cornice

[speed]

does anyone have any plans or designs of cornice that i can build in parts on the router table?

ive got a selection of cutters but i cant figure out anything that looks decent.

im making "country" style kitchen cupboards and need about 3m of cornice. i planned on using 3 0r 4 18mm mdf layers

 

[Steve Maskery]

What cutters do you have? You could draw out the profiles you have onto 3 or 4 pieces of card and play around with them until you find a combo that pleases you.
I've used combinations of cove and ogee in the past.
S

 

[speed]

i have the usuall selection of cutters, i tried a few combo but they dont look right to me,

the one i like the most is ogee then cove then 9mm round over but im not sure….

 

[AndyT]

Design of mouldings that look right is quite hard. Quite subtle changes to a curve or angle can make a big difference. I suggest you look around a showroom that has the sort of thing you like and have a good hard look at the mouldings on it. For proper period mouldings drawn full size there are books such as this one, available to read online or download:


http://archive.org/details/furnituremouldin00warnuoft


Also, if you do a search on Internet Archive texts for "moulding" or "molding" you will also find quite a few old catalogues of commercial readymade sections, some of which you could probably match with your router.

 

[speed]

this is what i came up with


IMG_2013 by j.j joinery, on Flickr


IMG_2012 by j.j joinery, on Flickr

 

[Steve Maskery]

The ogee formed by the bottom two look fine, the top piece doesn't look right to me. It should be a proper bullnose or a roundover on the bottom edge.
All IMHO of course.
S

 

[speed]

it looks ok when its above head height, i did try a full round over but looking up at it, it looked short/thin and a square edge looked too flat.

i will take pics next week when its fitted to the kitchen im building