10 inch 3 piece crown

[ZeesWoodShop]

Working on my project house, just put up the crown and other trim in the kitchen

I don't mind milling this stuff but hate hanging it


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Love the RAZ for crown makes it easy


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[RDMuller]

I see you have a Shopfox moulder in your shop.  Do you make the crown in one pass?  Do you "hog out" some of the areas where there is alot of material to remove?  What kind of wood?

I have only done one serious project on my new Shopfox.  I had a custom knife made about 5" wide to make ogee bracket feet.  I had to hog out as much a possible and still leave enough surface area for the autofeed rollers to grab hold of and pull it through.  I am curious what your experience has been.  I was using Walnut.  My machine struggled to get it thru in one pass as I could not make a second pass with the design of the molding I had.  I made way to elaborate a profile, but it does work.

 

[honeydoman]

looks great especially with the bead !

 

[ZeesWoodShop]

Thanks Kreg

I love the Shopfox, I also have a W&H too, the Shopfox kicks the the crap out of the W&H I run a lot of short runs of odd ball moulding on them. I run 10 to 15K ft in a good month.
I run the hog pass and then a finish pass usually about 1/16 down from the rough pass. I adjusted the feed rollers down to there lower setting and put heavier springs on them to keep the pressure up. I run nearly all poplar and it will hog nearly all profiles in one pass. I am planing on changing out the motor with a 5 hp over the factory 2hp my W&H has a 5 and you can tell the difference in federate. It might be worth messing with the feed rollers to try to get a second pass or running a really slow federate for walnut.


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The 4 black nuts have the springs that put pressure on the feed rollers you can switch out the springs under them for heavier ones from Tractor supply or Big R
Also there are two settings for the rollers I put mine in the lower setting and it will feed most stock with no trouble on the second pass


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Here is a video that might help

 

[ZeesWoodShop]

More trim in the same house

He works for 4 snickers an hour


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[jmbfestool]

Nice

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

If you run that much trim through them, I would be looking for a mill shop with a 5 or 6 head moulder to do the work.  It will be faster and cheaper to have the mouldings made by them.

 

[ZeesWoodShop]

Most of what I run are lots less than 300ft, the W&Hs let me change over fast and stay profitable. I clear between .75 and 2.00 off each ft depending on the moulding (I'm keeping that in house). The business started by accident, I needed some oddball trim for my mother in laws house and only place within 2 hours drive was $5.50 a ft  [eek]. So I found a W&H W7S on craigslist with a bunch of knives made it myself.  One of the contractors working on the house asked where I got it and the business was born. Once my twins are in school (they are 3 now) I am planing on building a new shop at my farm. I am in just over 1ksqft now and its a pain in the butt. I end up storing stuff in my horse barn now (major pain). I think I am going to look for a wing hydromat moulder (5 head) and gang saw once I get the new building in and offer some stock mouldings. I am thinking the new building with be about 5500 sqft and its going to be a mix cabinet and moulding.  Cool thing about where we live there is no zoneing for ag property so I can do what ever I want as far as building a shop goes.