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On 11 Oct, 00:01, "The Medway Handyman"
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Do you have a router?


Probably won't match. Assuming this is an old clock, those mouldings
were cut on a wooden-bodied hand moulding plane. Mouldings cut on a
router are ugly in comparison, from the limits of the tooling. You
have trouble getting sharp arrises (ridges), you certainly can't cut a
decent vee groove with a router.

Your best option is a wooden moulding plane. Many of them will match,
surprisingly well - many of the shapes were standards, even if you
need two planes in two passes to cut a complex moulding.

The practical option though is a scratch stock (JFGI). You make this
yourself, matching the profile in a piece of steel (old sawblade) and
then using a commercial (Stanley #66) or home made wooden holder.