Dentil Molding Question

[CrealBilly]

I've not made dentil molding before. I'm a Dentil Molding virgin, so be nice to me My case is exactly 28" wide and 11" deep. I plan on making the molding with a router and have the standard 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 5/8 and 7/8 straight bits to cut the gaps between the teeth. My question is which bit should I use and how wide should I make the teeth? So when I miter the molding the teeth will line up with width and depth of the cabinet.

Thanks

 

[FredP]

I've not made dentil molding before. I'm a Dentil Molding virgin, so be nice to me My case is exactly 28" wide and 11" deep. I plan on making the molding with a router and have the standard 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 5/8 and 7/8 straight bits to cut the gaps between the teeth. My question is which bit should I use and how wide should I make the teeth? So when I miter the molding the teeth will line up with width and depth of the cabinet.

Thanks

I made a jig for the tablesaw to make dental molding with a dado blade. 3/4" dental. :gar-Bi when you coming by?:rotflm: we can do it in just a couple minutes.:icon_thum

 

[Gotcha6]

Since I read the post about the Fibonacci thingy I can't get the idea out of my head. I'd think you could make a jig similar to the one used for making box joints. The teeth ought to be 5/8 as wide as they are tall and the gap should be 5/8 as wide as they are wide. In other words if you made a 1" wide tooth it ought to be 1-5/8" tall and 5/8" gap.
Just a suggestion...........

 

[CrealBilly]

I made a jig for the tablesaw to make dental molding with a dado blade. 3/4" dental. :gar-Bi when you coming by?:rotflm: we can do it in just a couple minutes.:icon_thum

Why don't we have a "Jigs" forum, so you guys can post all your cool jigs for us to ohh and ahh over?

So the teeth are 3/4 wide and the gap is 1/4 wide?

 

[CrealBilly]

I didn't know there was a As a general rule of thumb for dentil molding (who would have thought?) From wikipedia "The projection of the dentil is equal to its width, and the intervals between to half the width." Do you believe everything you read on the Internet? I don't...

 

[FredP]

I made mine from poplar with a detail routed in. the teeth and gaps are 3/4x3/4 and a 3/4" space from the top of the gap to the crown molding. this was for a mantle. sorry didn't get pics.:gar-Bi looked great but it was painted.:gar-Cr

 

[CrealBilly]

Thanks Fred to bad there are no pics - Thanks for the invite but I'm gonna wing it :confused_

 

[FredP]

think box joint jig on steroids used on the top of some baseboard. same principal. :gar-Bi

 

[Canuck]

think box joint jig on steroids used on the top of some baseboard. same principal. :gar-Bi

Fred may be onto something here, Jeff.

You may want to talk to Joe Scharle again about the box joint jig. Here is a pic of a jig that he helped me with awhile back and am sure that it would make that dentil pretty slick (as long as the pieces of molding aren't like 8' long. Then it may get tricky.)

Wayne

 

[CrealBilly]

I figured the dentil molding out, it wasn't to bad after I stared at a pile of wood for a while thinking about it. I did a 1" sq tooth, 1/2" tall with a 1/2" gap. I set up my dado stack for 1/2" in the table saw and used the miter gauge and the fence. It happened to work out to a easy pattern of moving the fence 1 3/8" from the prior cut then 1 7/8" from the next cut then back to 1 3/8 then 1 7/8. The pattern repeated till I was at the end of the board. The best part I didn't even have to call Fred and no fancy jigs needed :gar-Bi

 

[Gotcha6]

Where's the pics????

 

[CrealBilly]

Where's the pics????

Still needs sanding and corners are not glued, nor is it attached to the case. The bottom is 7/8 cove, the middle is 1" dentil, the top is 7/8 ogee. Look Stupid?

 

[FredP]

dont look stupid from here.:gar-Bi looks like you makin progress.:icon_thum

 

[Gotcha6]

:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

 

[Dragon]

Right professional looking to me. Some fine example of woodworking skill.

 

[CrealBilly]

For those who asked, here's the dentil molding close up. It's made up of 4 pieces of wood. 7/8 cove on the bottom, 1" dentil in the middle and a upside down 7/8 ogee, the 4th piece is 1" wide (I don't remember the thickness) behind the dentil to bring it forward. All the pieces glued up make it 2 1/8" thick by 2 3/4" tall. As you can see the chippers on my old dado set are not all that good. Glad I got a new set from Brian

http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/data/1713/medium/DM.JPG

Thanks

 

[MrAudio815]

That is some real nice looking Dentil Molding. You'd have to look really close to see the marks from your Dado.

And I couldn't have done better, Way to go on your First Dentil Molding adventure~!