Is there practical way to make a rope molding in home workshop?

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:45:44 -0500, "Alexander Galkin"
wrote:

Is there practical way to make a rope molding in home workshop?

"Practical" and "home" ? Well, if you mean "possible to make" and
"no-one is counting the labour costs" then yes.

You do a split turning, where two pieces of timber are stuck together
across a layer of brown kraft paper. Then you dry it (doh!), then you
turn it, then you split them apart again. This is fairly common for a
lot of Jacobean oak work - half spindles as decoration on the front of
cabinets.

As to the ropework, then it's a form of "barley sugar" turning, which
I'm sure you can find through Google or that paper-book-stuff. It's
less carving, and more like carving a piece held in the lathe and
turned gently by hand. The spiral is marked out in pencil beforehand,
then you shape it with a gouge. There are also router lathes (a fairly
simple jig) to hog off much of the timber under power, if you're
making big stuff.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:45:44 -0500, "Alexander Galkin"
wrote:

Is there practical way to make a rope molding in home workshop?

Inside This Old House recycles some of the TOH shows from the 80's. A
few weeks ago they showed this same thing. Started off with half round
stock, pencil marked the rope lines and started at it with a handsaw.
Cut maybe half way through and then took at it with a chisel and
finished off with sandpaper. Looked like a fair amount of work.

TomL