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Domenico, Michael Johnson is right; for cutting moldings you want a normal full-sized router, and either a router table with a fence, or, for some profiles, a bit with a ball-bearing pilot.

I don’t know about companies in Italy that make custom-profile router bits, but nowadays even in backwater little Salem, Oregon, USA, a few blocks from my house, my best saw-shop can make for me fine-grained carbide router bits of extraordinary detail. They aren’t inexpensive, but the cost, given the ease of use (compared to scratch beaders, which I find horrid) pays for itself very quickly. The only caveat I would give: save this for moldings which you use frequently enough to justify the cost.

I pay, on average, for a very elaborate custom-made cutter, of very fine-grained carbide, on a ½” shank (get the largest shank your router will accept, to minimize vibration) for about US$100. It’s been a while, so they may cost a bit more now.

We now, thanks to Mr. Kelzenberg, have a page on Facebook where members can post and view photos and other files related to our interests. I will try to find some photos of a few examples of the cutters and post them there. A bit of searching on Google should find an Italian company that does work every bit as good as what I have.

All this said, for my very frequently-used little Italian-style “ogee” molding with a return bead, the entire molding about 6mm wide, I had made a custom traditional molding plane. It is beyond joy to use. I use this pattern for many things, including the molding on Italian-style bridges, and having a dedicated plane, which cuts like butter, makes life much more pleasant.

Wishing you well,

Owen


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Owen Daly Early Keyboard Instruments
557 Statesman St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
http://www.dalyharpsichords.com
(503)-362-9396

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