Fall 2023 Showcase: Woodmaster-Making Molding

So Paul, I'm gonna call this a Planer. I'm gonna call it a drum standard. Wait, I'm old. Wait, wait, but wait, there's more but wait, there's more. And we're joking.

But one of the cool things about this machine is its versatility and the way people take advantage of surfacing, ripping, sanding and molding all in a really small footprint. I'm a huge fan. I use mine heavily and love it. It's a great way to go for the small shot. So this is a little unique for us, Paul in that you and I both have wood master tools in our shop.

Indeed. And um we were just talking a second ago about um really the molding aspect of being a wood master owner. So give us a little, I don't know, give, give us a little molding talk. Well, I, I think from, um, you know, I, I love talking about my wood master probably maybe more than any other tool because it has those, the four in one unique functions. But the one thing that it does that, so let's hit on that a second if people don't know planar drum sander rip and the ability to make molding, right?

And, and of those, I, I just feel like the molding component of that. There's really nothing else in this class that has that capability. You've got a good example here. Uh This would be a crown molding kind of a typical medium size, but you can do crown molding, huge width, old fashioned base molding. You can do log siding on it.

That capability is just unheard of it. It, it's sort of unparalleled in its class and I use that. I've done crown molding in homes for friends. Uh I've done some in my own home. I've, I used it to make molding on many furniture projects.

I love being able to not only use the same species of wood that I'm using for the furniture, but from the same tree, the same flinch that you get the perfect color match. It's really a unique capability. And if you run into weird stuff, if you're using a material, you can't commercially buy in molding, you'd have the ability to make it. So you're, you're gonna see all this in a second. But um you can imagine what the inside of a planar looks like.

We remove that and add this very molding head is what made that molding with that in place. We can make molding and when you look at this, the finish that's on that piece right now. There wasn't any sanding that was straight out of the machine. Yeah. Very impressive.

Well, let's show the folks at home how this gets done and have a look at the video about using this to make molding. One of the things that's so great about the wood master tools is their capability of doing so many different things. This is currently set up as a planar. We're gonna change that in just a second, but we can also make molding, we can rip material to width and we can turn it into a drum sander. So what we're gonna do now is change this from a planar to a molder and make some molding.

Molding head is in and ready to go. I have a beautiful chunk of walnut we're gonna send through there. So let's see, plain flat wood get turned into cool molding. So there's a bunch of stuff that's great about this one. Just the satisfaction of making your own molding.

Two monetizing being able to make your own molding because molding is not inexpensive. So once you have this set up, you could certainly be selling moldings. The other thing is when you get a project that's in an unusual specie alder might be an example of that. Can you buy commercially made moldings in the specie in which you're working if not, no sweat because you can make them. So lots of cool things about having the wood master and its capabilities as a molder.

In addition to plan or sander, we can put the ripping blades in there. So a lot of great stuff going on with that wood master. One of the things like question that we get frequently is I'd like to make a little money on my woodworking. And one of the answers we provide to that a lot as well. You know, you can make cutting boards for craft fairs, you can make pens for craft fairs.

But, um, it goes back to what you were saying about this is that the ability to make and sell moldings and it's all under one roof here. You can, you can plan your rough on stock. You can rip the stock using that attachment. You can then put the molding head in there and run miles and miles and miles of molding, um, and sell that as a way to monetize your shop. I agree.

And I think if you can get that business established that on an hourly basis, this would be likely one of the most profitable things you could do in your woodshop. It's a very cool idea. It's a lot of machine and a small, small footprint all under one roof.