Door and window trim

bfullmer

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What tool to make your own door and window trim? Trim at lumber store seems expensive and thought about making my own .any preferred brands??
 
All depends how fancy you want to get. I planed mine out of ash tailings from sawing logs. Just used the planer and jointer and the table saw. I suppose I could've got fancy and routered the edges.
 
You certainly can do a lot with a table saw and D4S 1" x ____ lumber, or as mentioned above, use rough cut if you have the additional tooling.

If its simple trim, table saw should make it easy, I've made wood window sash repair parts on mine, on the first try, plus all the glazing stop, parting stop and miscellaneous trim I can think of going back through jobs I've done, one of which was the reason I bought it, had high end french door to install, trim out, stain, clear coat etc., that one job just about paid for it.
 
The last house I lived in a lot of the trim was 1x4 pine. Pretty simple, and easy. It also was a good cover up for the Windows that were smaller than the hole in the wall.
 
You can make molding with just a router with a router table. You are restricted to the router bits available. I use a shaper with high speed steel knives so I can grind my own designs. Either the router or shaper you need two people to run it through because it needs to be run in a slow even speed without stopping. You set up the machine with feather brushes so it holds the wood tightly against the table and fence. Another option is a woodmaster or foley/belsaw planer. You can grind your own designs and the machine will feed the molding through by itself just like surfacing wood. The factory that makes molding for the stores has a similar machine called a molder that is bigger with 4 heads on it so it shapes all four sides of the molding in a single pass.
 
It depends on how fancy the trim is and how much length of it you need. Big cutters can get expensive and need horse power. Small cutters require many passes and setups to complete a profile.

What machine will you be using: shaper; router; table saw; planner?
 
I use a molding-head cutter (Craftsman with a variety of cutters) in my 10-inch table saw to make my own interior trim. It typically takes about three passes for the job, but I can have any design I want without too much labor or expense.
 
If you do more woodworking than just your trim - bite the bullet and buy a shaper. It's the right tool for the job. And you'll have an infinite amount of options for the perfect shape/profile you're looking for.
 
all I have now is a table saw, can someone tell me the difference between a shaper, moulder and planer moulder ? when using a table saw how do you hold the wood down using a moulding blade??
 
The molding cutter for a table saw works kind of like a dado set only with a shape to it. They are very rough cutting and would need multiple passes to make molding. You pretty much have to hold the wood down and run it against the fence. The blades are also only an inch wide so if the molding you are making is wider it's pretty awkward to do.

The first picture is my shaper. It has a verticle spindle that you can put different blades in to make molding. The second picture shows a box I used the shaper to make the molding on the side. The third picture shows some of my collection of shaper knives I have.

The fourth picture is my Belsaw. It is a planer/molder however when it was made there was a jointer attachment that could be used on top of it. I don't have that attachment though. The fifth picture is the molder knife for the Belsaw that came with it. All that would be necessary to make my own molding would be to cut jointer knives into sections and put my own designs on it.
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