Making curved
moldings requires years of training.
Curved moldings are important in home and office interior design. The intricate patterns created in curved moldings offer a level of sophistication and beauty that is not attainable with concrete. Making curved moldings requires years of training in order to master the techniques that produce beautiful designs. A special set of tools is required to do the work.
Band Saw
A band saw is motorized equipment that allows woodworkers to make very precise cuts from lumber into rough straight or curved pieces, which serve as the base design for most curved molding jobs. Band saws are useful because they work fast and very efficiently -- allowing one to produce multiple cuts of the same design. The uniform teeth distribution of the saw results in uniform cutting action.
Jigsaw
The jigsaw has a blade design that allows it to cut "arbitrary" curves and special patterns, such as those made with stenciled designs. Other saws cut only in straight lines, which do not really add anything to curved moldings. Jigsaws bend and sway according to the woodworker's command, leaving behind intricate designs that serve as the foundation for artistic curved molding. Jigsaws owe their ability to cut intricate designs to the design of the blades. Thinner blades are employed for very tight curves, but the craftsman has to be careful because thinner blades also result in harder-to-control cuts.
Router (Woodworking)
The router's design allows it to cut grooves and produce edge molding, chamfer designs and even a circular radius edge on the base wood. The router owes its shaping abilities to the router bits, equivalent to the drill bits in most drilling tools. The shape of a mounted router bit determines the shape of the wood being worked on. There are many router designs that you can choose from, depending on the intended resulting profile.
Power Sanders
The power sanding tool gives curved molding its smooth finish. It uses grit disks at the sanding surface; these disks produce the smoothness that is required in the finished curve molding product. The process of sanding begins by using coarser grit disks and progressively moving down to smaller grit sizes to produce the smoothest finish. This is also an important step prior to any painting job to ensure that the layer of paint on the curved molding is uniformly thick.
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