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A MOLDING FROM SCRATCHRecently I needed about 6 feet of a small molding for a bathroom towel cabinet. The cabinet was to match a medicine chest built by a friends’ brother 20 years ago. I was able to reproduce all of the elements of the cabinet with tools on hand except for a small applied molding on the doors. I decided the simplest way was to make a scratch stock and just scrape the molding out.
This is the molding that I needed to make.
This is the scratch stock I made, I cut a file card to a close approximation of the molding and laid it out on a piece of 01 tool steel. Then I used my Dremmel moto-tool with a cut-off wheel to hog out most of the profile. Then I refined and fitted the shape to the old molding. The last picture is of the molding that the scratch stock produces.
As you can see from this picture the scratch stock really only cuts on one side, and I have to run it both ways to make the molding. The wooden handle just makes it easier on the hands and provides a fence on one side.
This is the new molding on the outside and the old on the inside. It isn’t a perfect match but with the separation of the cabinets, one on each side of the bathroom, it is close enough to fool the eye. And now I have a tool to make a molding that I wasn’t able to make and use before.
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