Has anybody made their own wood trim pieces?

Question

I didn't care for any of the pieces at the lumberyard and thought, "I have a table saw and a router, maybe I could take a 2x4, cut to square pieces and router my design". Has anybody made their own pieces?

Answer 1

I work for Advantage Trim and Lumber in Buffalo New York, your are still limited to the profiles that you can find for your router, if this is a higher end job why don't you just go to a lumber yard and asking them to have the knifes you want made, we charge about $100.00 Per Knife and $200.00 for the set up plus the cost of the wood. If this is just some pine that your looking to do say one room then yes table saw and router are going to be your best bet to get a custom look at a low price.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I have five routers, including one mounted in a router table. So, I make my own baseboard and trim. I usually use 1 x 3 poplar, if I'm painting, for ogee style quater round. I use the table saw and different shaping bits for simple baseboard. My routr in the table is a 3 1/2 horse multi speed router. She's a powerful, big honker!!

I have special router shaping bits for real fancy base boards, crown mouldings, and door and window treatments. One bit costs about $250.oo. I have four or five of these!!

For the more basic baseboard and trim work, the router table and table saw is the way to go. I always give my customers the option of custom mouldings or the pemoulded ones at the lumbers stores.

Answer 4

Hell Yeah!

I bought a table saw and a router table just for that purpose.
My router table is a Ryobe. It was $99. Kinda cheap, but works great. The problem with this is - The bit costs alott! It depends on the name brand of bit you but,

You can also double or triple stack your wood moulds to create beautiful baseboards and crown moulding, shelf edges, Window and Door trim.The sky is the limit.

Rock on Dude. You'll be pleased with the results

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Absolutely... when we converted the slaughter-room on my brother's ranch into his office "The Man Room", we took two 10 foot length logs of a Live Oak we'd harvested the year prior, ran them through a friends lumber-mill, then planed the planks, ripped them, and ran them through the router to make his chair-rail and cornices.

Since then, he's taken more home lumber and also built a bar.

Answer 7

Sure-- buy a couple extra boards of the same species as your project

Rout both edges to the profile you need, rip them off on the table saw, rout again until you get as much as you need..

If you can't find a wide profile, you may have to make several different narrow ones, and stack them...

Answer 8

Go to a lumber yard that has a better selection of moldings.There are hundreds to choose from.

Answer 9

Sure you can. I have done this many times - everything from picture frames to baseboard to light switch covers.