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sanford
23 August 2019 at 5:13 pm #602023

Larry is right, of course, that machines can make things like this. In fact, in the next video my youtube brings up after the one Larry posted, Mat Cremona has a vid making a Goose Neck moulding for a fancy secretary desk using a normal hand router and a bunch of jigs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0hNKt6kByc. Besides being pretty fascinating, his vid (and many others) show how much skill goes into machine work once you get past the basics. On the other hand, we do know these shapes were made in large numbers long before there were spindle moulders and routers. I wonder how? I do not know how old Wim’s piece is, but no doubt it too could be made by hand. I have a few old moulding planes, and they are only good for straight mouldings. Were there similar moulding planes dedicated to curved moulding? If so I have not noticed them on ebay or elsewhere.