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In the June/July issue of Fine Homebuilding, the cover-story article was titled "Craftsman Casing - Simple elegance with site made trim".
I loved the look of it, and my wife did too, so when we bought our house last year and I did some large-scale renovations, I took off all the existing standard-issue window casing… unfortunately, I haven't really yet gotten around to replacing any of it, so…
The final version of this will be done on 14 windows in maple. Never having actually built anything remotely like this before, I figured a prototype in cheap big-box pine would be a good way to learn on inexpensive wood. The wife is happy with the results, I think the proportions look good (what do you think?), and fortunately all but four of the windows are the same size, so batching these out will be relatively straightforward.
Now all I have to do is get about 100 board feet of 4/4 and 20 board feet of 5/4 maple and I'm on my way.
I loved the look of it, and my wife did too, so when we bought our house last year and I did some large-scale renovations, I took off all the existing standard-issue window casing… unfortunately, I haven't really yet gotten around to replacing any of it, so…
The final version of this will be done on 14 windows in maple. Never having actually built anything remotely like this before, I figured a prototype in cheap big-box pine would be a good way to learn on inexpensive wood. The wife is happy with the results, I think the proportions look good (what do you think?), and fortunately all but four of the windows are the same size, so batching these out will be relatively straightforward.
Now all I have to do is get about 100 board feet of 4/4 and 20 board feet of 5/4 maple and I'm on my way.
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