AboutStuart Mawle Expertise Now been a carpenter & joiner for the past ten years in the UK. I can give avice / help on carpentry & joinery, health & safety, woodworking machinery, power tools and suppliers. I have served an indentured carpentry apprenticeship with a medium sized building contractor doing a wide range of domestic and commercial work. This has included office buildings, barn conversions, building extensions and renovations. During my career, I spent over three years as a wood trades technician at a college. My job involved joinery work, wood maching and helping CITB carpentry & joinery students` pratical projects. I am a member of Institute of Carpenters
Question I'm putting decorative trim down the wall of my staircase case and am haveing trouble finding the right cuts.I have a verticle piece with a 45 deg. piece meeting it at the top of the staircase and running down to the bottom where it meets another verticle piece. is there a formule for finding these cuts both at the top and botton of the staircase????
Answer No, there not a formula for this, in fact the problem lies that you are doing a raking (sloping) mould down the stairs meeting something like a dado rail. Is it the case the cuts are 'reasonable' but the mouldings profiles just don't match, which would make more sense to me. Usually in this scenario to make it align up the raking mould has to be a slightly different mould shape for the vertical cuts to match up. There is little you can do other than try to doctor the mould at the corner and feather back into the existing profile. If it is alot then it going to look unsightly but it would cost a small fortune to get a one-off moulding piece made up to match. Stuart
