Hi Scott, I have an old home about 120 years and nothing is square. I installed new baseboard when I installed my vanity. I also installed wainscoting. First for the baseboard I just put one piece corner to corner of 6" board and then butted the remaining pieces. I then put a shoe molding against the floor. this molding was mitered cut. On the top of the baseboard I used a cap molding. For this I had my son-in-law make a cope joint. This joint is a butt joint with one pieced of the molding cut to match the profile of the molding. For the chair rail at the top of the wainscoting I also had him make cope joints. As I mentioned nothing in this house is square. I made the wainscoting from paneling designed for that. two corners would not match up. Since I was going to paint anyway I cut a1/8" thick strip and glued it concealing the bad corner. Since the wainscoting appears to have a lot of thin boards butted this one small not plum piece does really not show unless you look for it. It is also in the corner behind the vanity and the other behind the water closet. Also in the rest of the home the baseboard has a 3 groove decorative cut about 1/3 from the bottom. With a molding cutter for my table saw I was able to duplicate this. Because of this groove I thought it was imperative that the board is level. So before I secured it I placed my audible level at the center and then fastened the baseboard. The gap between the floor and baseboard was concealed by the shoe molding. I am not sure if that was the proper way to do the job but my wife was happy and my criticizing brother spotted nothing wrong. Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:58 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] cutting baseboards or trim Folks, I've recently done a project replacing baseboard in the house. Now I'm a bit embarassed to admit I did a pretty crappy job of it. I say this because some of my measurements were obviously off since I had to piece some sections of trim in to fill shortend areas. I'm going to rip out what I did and do it over. I can tell you the job despite my best efforts can't hide the mess I made, but of course regardless if it does or not does not address the issue. I think I understand why its wrong, but not sure how to avoid this in the future. Here's the situation. I measured lets say 10 feet of trim by measuring from corner to corner of the room and yes, wall to wall not trim edge ot trim edge. Now since they are corners I know I need to cut the ends at a 45 degree angle in order for the ajoining pieces to fit. I think what I might be doing wrong is first measuring out my piece, cutting it, and then trying to then cut the angle. So, perhaps measuring out 10 feet and cutting at that point at the angle would insure I have the angle and exact cut. I may be wrong on this as it seems it wasn't perfect either. So, any suggestions, tips, etc. would be appreciated on how to deal with trim. I really want to get this cutting deal down so I can start working on some other projects. My wife wants a coffee table that is much smaller than the one we have currently. I'd like to build one, but don't want to waste a lot of wood experimenting unnecessarily. Matter of fact she wants either a rectangle or even an oval shape. If an oval, top is desired, how would one go about making such a creature? Thoughts on this also appreciated. tnx Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
