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Comment by Jay Boutwell on October 27, 2013 at 11:11pm

Thanks Leslee,  Cutting the molding coves on a table saw is not as hard as it is tedious,  The hard part is figuring out the angle to run it across the blade.  The other hard part is keeping the cuts the same from stick to stick.  The rest is tedious gluing and cutting all the angles that you need to reach the desired look.  Thanks again for your comment.

Comment by Leslee on October 27, 2013 at 10:19pm

Jay, Your molding turned out great. Doing the cove cutting on the table saw is that easy or somewhat hard. I saw it done on a few videos and I was wondering if it is easy. I do love the dent molding I saw that done on Woodsmith shop on the PBS channel. I do love the idea of bring back the old styles of molding from the past. Some of the moldings from the past are done like the way you did it and by different planes.  Your moldings look really good I hope the client liked them as well. Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Lorrie on October 24, 2013 at 12:29pm

Thanks Jay for your nice comments on my projects.  I am really enjoying learning how to build things and getting advice from you and others on the community has really helped me out tremendously.  It has raised my confidence to a level of "I can really do this".  It has been great.  Thank you for your mention of my Christmas Village.  This is something that I love to do and share with others.  Adults love the village as well as the kids.  I enjoy sharing comments with others so they will know that what they posted is really appreciated.  I know that the comments I received really helped boost my confidence.  thanks again!! :)

Comment by Jay Boutwell on October 24, 2013 at 2:44am

Thank you so much Lorrie for the very nice comment.  I appreciate that you recogonize the beauty of the wood grains as that is part of the art in woodworking.  It was a fun project to do and was a challenge of which had several phases of "how am I going to go this".  Since it is glued together into three major parts being able to apply pressure to the glue joints without nailing was a challenge.  I used my friend the electrician tape and a few funny cut angles to make it work. 

   The jig is especially great for doing many things and this project was no exception.  I guess it is like I always have said, " if you can't cut it flat just jig it."   Yes there are a lot of repeat cuts on each piece of molding so to make is simple I made all the cuts that I needed at each setting and then proceeded onto the next.  In the end it all falls together with each piece being exactly like the others.  This is especially critical as when you install the molding each miter from a different stick must be the same or your will find problems making the miters tight and exact. 

Talking about knowledge, I have been watching your progress on the community and you have been turning out some impressive projects of which I can see the amount of work and though process that you have suscessfully completed.  For being young at the woodworking game you have done well.

  Your recent Christmas project was very nice and it comes at a time of the year when I am certain that you have raised the Christmas and holiday season spirits in more than one person.  I saw the one comment that one member posted about his child wanting to watch your show again.  This was especially nice to see as even a seasoned woodworker like me, felt a good feeling that a kreg community member had done something special that touched a young child enough to want to watch it again.    This is a lot more than just posting a project.  It is giving something of your talents that impacts someones feeling, in many it stirs the will and desire to create.  Even though this was a young child I am sure it will not be forgot.  I am grateful that the father of this child wrote a reply that indicated the event of his childs feelings as now everyone who reads the community posts knows what that Christmas Village project meant to this child. 

I thought that this was the very reason that projects were posted on here was stimulate the desire and wish to create and to share with someone, something that they can see and learn from.  Something to motivate them and cause them to start asking questions and then challenge them selves.  That is how we learn. 

I don't know how many know this but I have been teaching wood working to a small class here at my shop on Saturday mornings for the last several months.  The kreg jig community's projects have been viewed many times and usually discussed how they are built.   So at this time the community is like a tool to cause many who view this communities projects, to become excited and builds their desire to build with wood. 

Thank you again Lorrie, for your nice comments and for your contribution to the community and thoes who read and see it.  Keep up your drive and ambition in working wood and you will go far in  the art of woodworking. 

Comment by Lorrie on October 24, 2013 at 1:04am

Hi Jay,

Beautiful job!  This is so awesome!  I love the oak.  I like the way the stain brings out the beautiful grain!  I can't believe you made that molding on the radial arm saw!!  That is a lot of repeat cuts!!  that is just a work of art the way you stacked it.  That is a "one of a kind" project for sure.  I looked at the other pictures as well and saw that you made a pretty cool jig for cutting on the table saw.  It is fascinating to see something like this.  I wish I could just snap my fingers and have your knowledge in my head!! LOL  You are so creative with your projects.  I hope to do something like this some day.  It will be far in the future as I am still learning how to use the tools.  Thank you so much for sharing such a magnificent project.  I just goes to show what you can truly do with wood!!  Fabulous Job!!!!! :)