How do you do frame and panel waincoting around bullnosed corners?
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Challenging Work
For a tight radius the solution is to create a post on the lathe with the proper radius for the vertical part, and then to turn two disks whose outer edges will blend into the base and cap molding sections of the wainscoting. The post and disks are then cut into wedge shaped sections that are worked into the conventional flat trim on the adjoining walls.
For a wide radius you can create a curved panel and curved top and bottom moldings. In a modern architectural woodworking shop the common approach, for painted work, would be to build up the molding blanks by gluing up small blocks of wood like a brick wall. The blanks are then shaped (with much holding of breath and anxiety) on a shaper. There are other ways to create the blanks and trim profiles-all of them challenging.
If you really want to learn how to do this you can find reprints of books from 100 odd years ago that show the traditional ways of creating curved work using hand and power tools.
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