(country music) - Hello, welcome to Suzy's Barn Shop of The American Woodshop.

- Today it's all about trim.

We're going to trim out some really cool things in the barn, and then heading inside to really trim out the kitchen.

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- Suzy, I love your barn shop, and make no mistake, it is her barn shop.

Okay.

I have limited privileges.

Okay.

But today we're doing trim together, because as we tackle certain projects, it's a two-person job.

Like, what's your main project?

- Well, trimming out the loft and doing the balustrade.

You need it for safety, but also wanting to carry the theme of the corkscrew Willow through there, so.

- Okay.

And then there are other shelving ideas instead of paying for expensive counters, how about some shelves?

And then, we're going to do a free-standing recycled bar, and you also see novel ways of doing safe, to code handrail.

So let's get to it.

- All right, let's go.

- All right.

Hey, where's your frisbee?

Get your frisbee, bring it, bring it.

Come on.

Come on guys.

- Okay.

So we're finishing out the balustrade.

Basically, we built a box and filled in, did our little artistic view of curly Willow.

The corkscrew Willow, and now we're marking it.

I'm just using a permanent marker and we got two marks right here, and then we'll take it to the bandsaw, cut that off.

And then we'll install it.

- Here's a project that we need to finish.

This is two and a half inch white Oak.

And you'll see more on the balustrade in just a second.

But I want you to see this because this is part of a freestanding.

It'll be part of a freestanding live edge slab.

This is heavy duty.

Those fasteners five and a half inches long.

And that is rock solid, no lead paint on this, okay?

That's beautiful.

And I've got a mating piece of that to go up, because we're going up into Suzy's loft, which you haven't seen.

But before we do, here's a very important thing, I have hearing plugs in, and this bandsaw set up right now and locked in place, with three eighths inch blade that I have some cuts to make.

And when I'm cutting irregular stock like this, thank you Suzy.

Okay.

With my N 95 dust mask.

- Gotta keep him in line here.

(laughing) - Be sure to read, understand and follow all the instructions that come with the tools and products you use in your woodshop.

So now when we go to cut it, I make sure that I have two good points of contact down, and I'm bracing this hand and my palm to the table.

So I really got three points of contact.

Because this cannot roll as I make that cut.

If it does, it's going to kink the blade.

Control it.

Keep your finger and hand out of the plane of the blade.

Now watch how this works.

I'm going through the top line.

No harm, no foul.

We'll get rid of that scrap.

And that's one down.

And this 10-inch bandsaw, it's got guts.

Look at this piece.

That's got a good solid foundation down.

I'm following Suzy's line.

It cannot roll.

I think that was a perfect cut.

And now we'll take this all upstairs and see how the balustrade comes together.

Ooh, always exciting.

- All right, time to get the safety banister in, and then you'll get to see the rest of my loft.

But Scott, if you'll check for level and help me get it in place.

- Okay.

I'll line everything up.

You want it not only level, but also plum.

Now, I've checked it for level and it's spot, perfect.

- All right.

- Okay.

Now plumb, it needs to go the top, your way just an eighth of an inch.

- Okay.

- Bring it right there.

- Right there?

- Now drive that heavy duty structural fastener.

It's five and a half inches long, wood to wood all the way.

- Okay.

- There we go.

Solid as a rock.

- So now, again, checking for level.

What do you think, boss?

- I don't think you can get any better than that.

- That's what a guy wants to hear, and that's plum right there.

And that's flushed to the edge right here.

So, go ahead and drive this fastener as well.

Okay?

Okay.

Now this piece is cut to perfection.

I tell you, whoever does all the cut work around here is all right.

(Suzy laughing) And so that gets a heavy duty fastener here.

And one here.

Congratulations.

Yeah.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

- And that's going to draw all this nice and solid.

And whatever you do, do this stuff to code.

I know this is out there, but try to pass a four inch ball through any of this, good luck with that.

And another thing I want you to think about is look around on the open sides of this.

You'll see that we use livestock fencing because we have dogs, as the safety railing, and all of that gets one big brace behind it.

And then come this way.

Suzy, let's lift this live edge hard maple slab.

You know why they call it hard maple?

Man, it's hard as a rock.

- And heavy.

(laughing) - Okay.

Now, lift it up and balance it.

And it will just get cleated from the bottom here.

- It can go your way a little bit.

- Okay.

Once we have it perfected, but look at that.

And I mean that is, are you ready?

- Simple, easy.

- That is rock solid.

Right there, without fasteners on the bottom just yet.

And some people go, well, that's not that solid.

Well, once we get those fastened together, it's just like off to the races.

You may not want to do this, but it was, what can a guy say?

- Don't scare your wife!

- Okay.

Now, why is this space important to you?

- I just love it.

It's just, you know, I've got great views.

It's my own space.

You know, you can just be free and create.

- And this is one of my favorite paintings of hers.

And you know, when you have an inspired place, you can do things like make gifts for people instead of going out and buying them.

- Right.

- That's huge.

And the other thing, open up to the view, lots of natural light.

- Yeah I love the natural light.

- That's key.

- It really is.

- And then you can see how the fencing around the railing comes over to this corkscrew Willow trunk right here on the railing, and all this is code compliant, all rock solid.

So whatever you do, when you tackle a dream project, you have to have your muse and you're my muse.

So thank you for all the inspiration over the years.

- Well thank you for building me a barn.

I love it.

- It is.

It's fantastic.

- You didn't do that just to get me out of your woodshop, did you?

- I believe in the constitution of the United States and I'm going to take the fifth on that.

Okay, so, speaking of the woodshop, my shop, it's time to go to my woodshop.

Did you me tap dance?

Okay.

Off I go.

- Oh, I thought he'd never leave.

Love my time in my woodshop.

Now, we're going to turn some trim rosettes for base board and you'll see that installed in the kitchen in a bit.

That's a rosette.

We're using three cutters.

We'll start with the diamond cutter, go to the round cutter, and then go to the square cutter.

And the cool thing about this type of system is you only need one handle.

You insert the cutter like so, and you tighten it down, and you make sure the cutting point is right on center.

And that blank right there is mounted to the lathe with a face plate that's centered up on the block of wood.

It's not perfectly round, because it needs to trim out the sideboards.

So let's turn this on.

And whatever you do, be sure to read, understand and follow the instructions that come with tools and products you use in your woodshop.

Face shield.

Now it goes straight in.

And I make one, two, three, Oh, I got it a little bit sideways there.

See even the pros make mistakes.

And those are my defining lines right there.

And now, I'm going to go to the round cutter, as promised.

These are carbide.

And if they do get dull, you just put the wrench in there, rotate it around a little bit, you got a sharp edge again.

So right here, I want it to go straight on in.

How cool is that?

Right there.

Right there, and right there.

Okay.

And now I'm done with the round cutter and I can go with the square cutter.

Life's too short to have boring baseboards.

So with that square cutter, I'm just making that center round, making it a bump or a bead.

And so that's how you make rosettes.

The easy way.

Let's turn that off, take a look at that.

So much fun.

So easy to do.

So that's perfect.

I'll sand it lightly and put a finish on it.

But let's talk about other trim, crown molding, how in the world do you cut it?

Well, here's a wonderful project for all of us to dig into.

Now on the trim for the corner cupboard, look at this.

This is something I got from an amazing person, an antique dealer named Cindy Gibson.

And original glass, 170 plus years old, German Baptist origin.

But it was missing the top trim, the capital.

And so what I'm going to do is take a piece of crown molding and build that out just like that.

Now, to do that, you have to get the correct compound angle, and take a close look at this.

First off, I figured out that with this angle gauge right here, it comes in, once I put it on, there's zero.

You swing it around, and keeping everything lined up.

This is important.

Then that tells you it's 223.2 degrees.

You hit reverse and that gives you 136.8 degrees.

Those are key numbers because I go to a chart on the internet for that degree setting, and it will tell me the compound cut that we need to make.

Now a compound cut is a miter cut and a bevel cut.

The angle cut on the surface is called the miter cut.

The angle cut on the edge is the bevel.

Now watch what happens because of what they call a 38 degree angle down here that springs it, so that when you lay that flat board up on that spring angle, it gives you a crown effect like this on that corner.

So let's go make those cuts.

And one other thing to make this all come together.

This trim board right here, it has a 38-degree bevel along this edge.

Why is that important?

At two and three quarters inch width, when I lay that up on the back edge at the top here, that gives me the perfect angle to support this.

No nails are used, I just screw that all in place.

You'll see that more in a second.

But this bevel cut is done at the table saw first.

And then, you can do the miter cuts on the end to finish that out.

Now, let's go do a crown cutting work shop.

True to my words on my angle chart, it tells me that my miter cut needs to be set at 14 degrees, and my bevel cut, which is the tilt of the blade, needs to be set at 17.2.

And so, I have those locked in, and let me show you what that does when you make complimentary cuts.

And it's key to know that this cove on the bottom is always the bottom.

Okay?

As long as you keep that in mind that cove, and keep it up to the fence, kind of cutting it upside down as it were, it's pretty easy to make these compound cuts with that 38-degrees spring angle.

Now those miter and bevel angles are different for different springs, but the standard spring angle on crown molding is going to be 38 degrees.

Okay, so the cove, remember that scallop right there, goes against the fence as we make this first cut, and then, turn on dust collection.

This is handy.

Hold it in place.

You always want the scrap to be falling away from the tilt of the blade.

That's for safety.

So now, make the cut.

Just like that, it's all the way through.

And now that is the first half of the mating cut right there.

Now, what I have to do to make the other cut, the mating cut is, I tilt in the other direction, 17.2 degrees, setting it on the scale on the back, like so, and then, I lock that in place.

And now, on the other board, I could then with that cove up against the fence, and I've already made the cut, now you can see how those two cuts will mate to each other, like so.

And that springs around that corner.

And I just make those cuts for the other side.

And once that's done, I release this, set it back to zero on the bevel, set it back to zero on the miter.

And then I cut it to a predetermined length that I took a measurement directly from the cabinet to get that.

And I cut that square.

Just like that.

So when you put those two pieces together now that wraps the corner.

Of course, you do the same thing for the other side.

But how do you hold all of this to that beautiful capital trim on that corner cupboard?

Let me show you a second here.

I want to make a cut first.

Let it come to a stop.

Up, scrap away, always get rid of the scrap safely, and now what I can do, because that's 38 degrees, that's 38 degrees.

I use that as my foundation by bringing up this piece, once it's mounted onto the top of the corner cabinet, and I can screw this all together, no nails are used here.

And this makes this restoration reversible if somebody really wanted to try to put an original capital on, if they could find an example of that.

So what I have to do then is take this with the complimentary 38-degrees spring angle down and the scrap falling away from the blade, lock that in place, bring this over.

You could use a laser, I have one built in, but I've just gotten used to sighting off of the set of the blade to give me my own cut.

Make that cut.

Again, let it come to a stop, scrap away.

And now that will make installing that crown molding with screws a breeze.

You'll see how in just a second.

And now I have to set this back to square, to cut the baseboard trim to the lengths that I need to go to that rosette block.

And I have a piece of cherry here to do that with.

Beautiful milled and pre-finish stain grade cherry, as it were.

It's not stained.

But the easiest way to cut replacement baseboard, anywhere, take the old baseboard out, because you know it fits, and use that as your go-by.

So, what I need to do down here is cut that in at 45 degrees and then coat the corner so it wraps a nice tight inside quarter joint.

You're looking at the top of the cabinet now.

And, by the way, you'll see that trim for the kitchen installed after we get this crown on and stained and finished.

And if you look at what I'm doing right now, I'm using square drive screws here to join this trim piece, remember cut at 38 degrees.

So now, we take the crown molding with cove down and complimentary coming into the side trim pieces.

That index is exactly where it needs to go, up and in.

Once I have it positioned where I want it, okay, then I line it up and I screw it through this top cleat.

Again, what this does is it makes it all reversible if we need it.

And then, I finished filling out the field here, making sure the joints are perfect and they are.

And that's the beautiful thing about using this to tie the crown molding together.

And then on the back side, I also have some screws going through into the fat part of this crown, just to draw everything tight.

Blue painter's tape is on there, because as soon as I get this screwed in place and perfected we're going to wipe on nutmeg gel finish, and that gel finish will match the color of the base.

So, let's get this in place, put the finish on, and do the reveal.

[Wiping on finish] Here we go, up she goes.

Woo, I'll tell ya, that'll test a guy.

Now, let's take this off.

Oh boy, that's so much fun.

Oh boy, restoration work, why do you do it?

Well, I brought this piece back to life.

And it needed that new capital, it's uplifting.

When Suzy sees this, off to the kitchen it goes.

And whatever you do, take good care of antiques.

Don't do anything that you don't have to do to the finish.

I just cleaned this up with orange oil on the finish, and on the inside I used Green Works to make this food ready again.

And off to the races we go.

I love everything about this piece.

Absolutely spectacular.

It's a keeper.

Okay, off to the kitchen to finish that trim work too.

I'll get those parts.

So, when life throws you curve balls like two hounds dogs that like to eat on your wall because they have all the cooking oils from the kitchen stove, yes, they should leave right now.

Okay.

You turn rosettes and these rosettes go up, and they cover that area that they like to chew on.

Of course, this gets brad nailed, two and a half inch brads into the 2x4 through that dry wall, and that will take care of that.

Now, whatever you do, when you do cool things on your home, sign it, date it, because somewhere down the road, when people are remodeling, they're going to see that, and that's going to be priceless to them.

So that's the trim work.

And don't forget the trick about using the old trim.

See look at the difference between that and this cherry trim that I got from Habitat Restore.

You don't have to spend a fortune on this stuff.

Now, what's the most expensive room in your home?

Very definitely, it's the kitchen.

Beautiful cherry trim and cabinets.

All the little details and look up at the top, that's crown molding.

You know how to cut that now.

And as a refresher, go to our website and watch it again, because all the angles and all the techniques are there.

Well, that's it for this week from the American Woodshop.

Thanks for being with us, see you next week.

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