Hi, I'm Bob Vila.
Welcome home again.
We're still doing finish carpentry and today we're gonna show you you how to create an elaborate cornice molding, made out of wood.
We're also taking you on a field trip, it's not all carpentry today.
We're going to go to Newport, Rhode Island to visit the Issac Bell House which has some the most beautiful interior paneling you'll see anyplace.
And when we come back, we're kinda gonna do a little knockoff of what we see there to create a paneled entryway that goes into my living room.
Stick around, it's good to have you home again.
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OK.
We're in the dining room and there's Bob Riley.
Hi.
Hi, Bob.
How are ya?
Good.
Now the the job in here is pretty elaborate, to create the cornice right?
And obviously, you've got to do all of it right up there on the ceiling.
Yeah.
So you have done and the most important thing which is to lay out your sawhorses around the perimeter of the room and throw up your planks.
So that you don't have to worry about benches or ladders.
Right, well.
I'm, we're going to be up here for a while.
so we want it good and safe and comfortable so we can walk around.
Yeah, it's a complicated cornice molding and it's also a complicated room, it's not four sides.
Right, we've got a a bunch of different angles going on.
This room actually has one, two, three walls and then one wall that's three-sided, so it's actually six walls in here.
Yes.
Challenging, Riley.
Right, plus it's a five-piece molding that the architect has got us putting up.
Let's look at this.
So, this is the ceiling up here, and we've got a stock crown molding that we got here from our buddies here at Anderson McQuaid .
And then you've got a flat piece of stock, two pieces of filler.
What's the fifth?
Then it's got this dental molding round in the bottom.
Ah, a dental molding.
Right.
Which of course will go on the bottom.
And which echo's the dental molding that's on the built-in hutch, here in the room.
Exactly, right.
That's going to be beautiful.
Yeah, it is.
It's going to be nice.
How do you get started?
Well, we've already snapped our lines, we know where it's going to be going up here, and We had to be careful of how we are going to get over this window.
But it's going to sit like that.
And it goes right across the whole top of the window.
It goes across the top of this window.
We initially had a piece of scotia in here but we eliminated that, because the distance between the ceiling and the top of t he casing is three eighths of an inch from one end to the other.
So we are determined to...
Stuff like that happens in a hundred years.
It happens, so this way here you won't be able to lose it and your eye wont really pick it out.
Now, where does this dental moulding go though, on the very bottom?
When we're done right, the dental will sit right in there.
OK.
That's nice.
That is nice.
So what did I just interrupt, what were you working on over there?
What I'm doing, I'm trying to determine what this angle is here.
So I just bisected this point here, because the first piece you want to put on is over the fireplace, I don't want any joints in here.
And there's two different angles on either end.
And the way we did this was after snapping these lines.
I've got a line through here and I just take uh, a belt.
Full square.
Yeah.
And set it on the wall.
And this will be our starting point for determining this angle.
If you could just set that in the we'll do a little test cut?
Right okay alright, set the blade to that angle.
Okay.
Now, the mitre box here is going to allow us to kind of replicate what he's done but we're still kind of looking at at a rough situation.
We're trying to estimate looks to me like it could be around 34 degrees.
Sounds...make a test cut, with a piece of scrap.
And you can just Okay, gee.
That's not too bad really.
Looks like.
It's close, let me adjust it maybe down to maybe a degree or two?
I'd say, yeah.
Try whatever you've got there.
One and a half less.
One and a half less?
Right.
Right.
So I'm gonna go down from thirty-four down to thirty-three, thirty-two and a half.
Oh that looks good.
That looks pretty tight.
Okay so what did you have that at?
That's at thirty-two and a half degrees.
Okay, and that determines the inside cut there.
Right, so the first piece we're gonna be putting on is right over the fireplace there.
Very good.
All right.
This one eleven feet one and a half inch
And of course its the crown molding
Okay.
Which goes right up against the ceiling against your blue line there.
Yeah.
How does that look?
Oh it looks great.
Okay.
The trick is we don't want a nail very close to the end, because we might split the wood.
Just want to come up, maybe half an inch up.
Five eighths of an inch.
And then, of course, we'll use a nail set to set it in farther, and Riley?
Yeah?
Okay, you're putting in a six penny nail there, I'm using a four penny over at this end.
Right.
Anyway, we have to take a break.
Please stick around after these messages.
We are going to be in Newport, Rhode Island visiting the Issac Bell House.
