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   YesMaam27577 | Jun 25, 2003 10:54pm | #1

   I don't have the answer, but I'll bet that you will have better luck if you post this question over at Breaktime (the Fine Homebuilding site, accessible from a link above).

   I seem to remember a posting there a year or so ago.

   Best luck -- and be sure to come back and post pictures when the project is done.

   Vast projects should not be founded on half vast ideas.
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   LeeGrinding1 | Jun 26, 2003 04:44pm | #2

   Are you talking about assembling this thing from pieces or carving it?

   Lee

   Lee Grindinger

   Furniture Carver

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   josan | Jun 27, 2003 06:02am | #4

   actually looking at piecing it together. I have seen flat stock used also I have seen stocked milled with peaks. I guess I am just being lazy in hoping someone has done the math. I just have been inundated

   with unusual projects as of late so I thought I might try to save some time

   Joe

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   Jamie_Buxton | Jun 26, 2003 10:57pm | #3

   You may not like this answer, but nowadays things like that are mostly made by casting plastic of various sorts.   Outwater is one online source (http://www.outwater.com).  Look in the architectural section under exterior millwork.  For $100-$200, you have several choices in style and size.  It is 'way less expensive than building one from wood, what with the curved moulding at the top.   After it is painted, who's going to know whether it is wood or not?