We are in the process of remodeling our bathroom. Our home is over 100 years old so we are going back to original look. Claw foot tub, free standing sink etc. We want to put beadboard on the walls probably about 60". Maybe a little shorter. Problem is finding the beadboard at a reasonable price. Everything we find is $7 a piece for 3" wide pieces.

Soo, I have a shop full of tools, why not make it myself.

Any ideas on the best approach. I was thinking router or molding cutter for TS,but I'm open to any ideas, I do have a Delta LD shaper if I could find the right heads.

Thanks for any thoughts/ideas.

Molding head on the table saw would work for me.

That seems to be what most of my web queries say too. Any ideas where to get a molding cutter for beadboard? Maybe Rockler?

As a Tennessee Wood Wright this is one of the things people call me in for, just finished one last week, had to rework the granite also.

For this I use Router Planes and Beading Planes.
You can make your own per the job needed or look for them on eBay.
If you need specific help just ask, I'm here for ya.

Sears sold a molding head and cutters but I'm not sure if they are still available.. The one I have has 3 "beads". I'd bury the cutter in a fence and expose a single bead.

 

Check out this bead board set of router bits from MLCS Woodworking. $100 for the 3 bit set.
I have bought a lot of bits from them for various projects over the years. Good quality and great customer service.

http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtml/pag...

 

Here is the link for the instructions as well.

http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/smarthtml/graphics2/TM83-84wainscotpanelandbeadboard.pdf

 

 

If you guys weren't so dang lazy you could do them better by hand for about $30!
(I've available for stone tossing...)

John, Delta had a Moulding Cutter Head (Catalog No. 1343) for both the LD, and HD Shapers that uses the same knives as the Table Saw Moulding Cutter Head (Catalog No. 265).

 

 

 

 

Corob Cutters is reproducing some of the original Delta knives, along with other profiles.

 

http://corobcutters.com/shapercutters.aspx

 

Their prices seem reasonable.

 

With both heads (1343, & 265) you could speed up your production time.

 

 

 

 

Ok,

Went to our local salvage store and they have exactly what we need and it's vintage so it's good in two ways. First we recycle which is great, and second, it keeps things as original as possible. So I think that's the way we are going to go.

Thanks to everyone for the advice. Who knows, I may use it to make some period built in.

Sounds like you need a router bit

And it's a perfect excuse to get a laser guided base.

Yes,

I saw that. Great base. but we are going with salvaged boards. However, after I spent three hours with our contractor jack hammering out the cement floor, we found the reason for the "spongy" floor in hallway. Seems the under layment which is 1 X 8 ship lapped lumber is short of the joice. So I have to replace that. No problem, easy enough to reproduce, but I cannot find the oak flooring any place. Its 1/4 thick by 2" wide oak I can find all kinds of 2 1/4 wide oak, but 2" seems to be unavailable.

 

 

So does anyone know where I can find this older flooring. Or, I could cut down the 2 1/4 boards to 2" and then add the groove. Problem is how to add the groove? Any ideas on that? Pretty thin for a table saw, and I haven't found any router bits that thin.

 

Old houses are great, until you run into some of these kinds of issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Groove? Got a picture or drawing of this? Lots of flooring has a chamfer, which is just an edge treatment I believe the function is not to attract dirt ( which it does) but to account for irregularities in board height and thickness. Sort of to throw the eye off.

 

John, You might try these folks- http://www.thewoodscompany.com/. They ship everywhere.

 

 

 

Another great topic brought up from the archives.

7 minutes ago, John Morris said:

Another great topic brought up from the archives.

I gotta start looking at the OP dates better before I start "Liking" responses... But since I'm here now...my $.02

 

Good article and have done some with my "old Craftsman" molding head. Occasionally I find them &/or cutters at yard/garage sales or flea markets for just a few bucks...even found one with 8 profiles at a Pawn Shop, NIB never used along with several other profiles NIP. Often see the Craftsman molding head and cutters on eBay too and sometimes CL.

 

Pretty sure Corob offers cutters than fit most of the Craftsman heads too Corob Cutters

Like away Dave! Nothing wrong with that.

We have been bringing up these earlier topics from our Archives for some time now. They are still very relevant today! Hey, we only have about 70,000 more to bring up to our live forums! I'll be dead before we get em all up here, but I'll try!

Sorry I haven't been here in a while.  We decided to buy recycled bead board from our local dealer.  Found enough to do the job and some left over.  It really came out better than I had thought.

Thanks for everyones help and advice.

John

Any pics John?

Cal