Where do you get wood mouldings like these?

I have had great service from Howells, they also do the curved corner mouldings. If you visit them they let you wander about and select wood with matching grain. If you want 30mm depth you could have two mouldings, top and bottom and if you chose the grain carefully and clamped it up tight you wouldn't see the join. Teak is lovelty to work with, you can hide joins very easily. If I was using my PC I would link to a photo of my table top I made with Howells timber including a curved fiddle rail.
 
Why don't you just laminate up a corner piece yourself? You can get the rounded top by using a router, preferably in a router table, two passes with a ? Half inch round over bit. Laminating is easy, you just need thin strips, a guide to mold it round and some clamps.
 
pmagowan said:
Why don't you just laminate up a corner piece yourself? You can get the rounded top by using a router, preferably in a router table, two passes with a ? Half inch round over bit. Laminating is easy, you just need thin strips, a guide to mold it round and some clamps.
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Where's that big laughing man on his side thingy? :D It's kind of you to describe the process but afterwards I would have two less fingers, no usable wood and the boat next door would be on fire.
 
There's an awful lot of "justs" in those responses.:(
An alternative would be to contact Wilkes, the moulding people, and ask for some of their fake plastic teak. Last year at the show, between us we heated a piece with a hot air gun and it bent without distortion into a very nice curve.
 
Lazy Kipper said:
Where's that big laughing man on his side thingy? :D It's kind of you to describe the process but afterwards I would have two less fingers, no usable wood and the boat next door would be on fire.
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All due respect, but if you really are so incompetent with practical skills, I'm not quite sure why you bothered posting on this forum? What is it that you are asking for?
This forum is for Practical Boat Owners and you have received some excellent practical advice to your quite reasonable original question. However there is only so far that some things can be dumbed down, and you have rejected all the well meant, well thought out and practical suggestions as being beyond your skill level.

Maybe its time to pay a man to do what you cant do and stop cluttering up this forum?

To the people who have posted their ideas: While the OP may not value your suggestions, there are probably many readers including me who do.
Cheers
 
John the kiwi said:
All due respect, but if you really are so incompetent with practical skills, I'm not quite sure why you bothered posting on this forum? What is it that you are asking for?
This forum is for Practical Boat Owners and you have received some excellent practical advice to your quite reasonable original question. However there is only so far that some things can be dumbed down, and you have rejected all the well meant, well thought out and practical suggestions as being beyond your skill level.

Maybe its time to pay a man to do what you cant do and stop cluttering up this forum?

To the people who have posted their ideas: While the OP may not value your suggestions, there are probably many readers including me who do.
Cheers
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I love it when some makes a post like this, all angry and flustered. I can picture the look of indignation as a non practical person dares to post on a practical forum. Tut tut he says, he's not one of us.

I asked for recommendations for buying off the shelf because I said I can't make things. Whenever someone suggested making things I reminded them that I can't make things. Howells may come true and I like the idea of sticking two mouldings together, not very difficult and possibly within my skill set to stick two things together but if I get that router out then something's going to sink.
 
John the kiwi said:
All due respect, but if you really are so incompetent with practical skills, I'm not quite sure why you bothered posting on this forum? What is it that you are asking for?
This forum is for Practical Boat Owners and you have received some excellent practical advice to your quite reasonable original question. However there is only so far that some things can be dumbed down, and you have rejected all the well meant, well thought out and practical suggestions as being beyond your skill level.

Maybe its time to pay a man to do what you cant do and stop cluttering up this forum?

To the people who have posted their ideas: While the OP may not value your suggestions, there are probably many readers including me who do.
Cheers
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If the lounge is anything to go by you will be seeing Tits soon :p
 
Lazy Kipper said:
I love it when some makes a post like this, all angry and flustered. I can picture the look of indignation as a non practical person dares to post on a practical forum. Tut tut he says, he's not one of us.

I asked for recommendations for buying off the shelf because I said I can't make things. Whenever someone suggested making things I reminded them that I can't make things. Howells may come true and I like the idea of sticking two mouldings together, not very difficult and possibly within my skill set to stick two things together but if I get that router out then something's going to sink.
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Not angry or flustered. In your original post you didn't ask for "off the shelf solutions", nor did you proclaim your lack of skills until a later post, but you did seem to ridicule some well meant practical suggestions which is what i was reacting to.
Good luck.
 
No problem and no offence taken. Boating is a funny business, some things I'm good at but other things I've learnt to avoid on the basis I'm only skilled at RIY - Ruin It Yourself. Routers definitely fall in that category.
 
Oh dear. Well back to helpful suggestions, I know this may not be a pretty as wood but could you consider plastic edge trim? There is a huge range of profiles, materials and colours available, and table top edge trim would be in your size range. It would be more resiliant to damage too and very easy to stick on.
 
salar said:
Oh dear. Well back to helpful suggestions, I know this may not be a pretty as wood but could you consider plastic edge trim? There is a huge range of profiles, materials and colours available, and table top edge trim would be in your size range. It would be more resiliant to damage too and very easy to stick on.
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A great idea - any suggested links? I looked in B&Q but couldn't see anything. A big advantage of plastic is the flix, one corner is right opposite the companionway and if you fell back it would be a nasty point, currently we've got a child's corner protector.
 
Not B&Q, it would be a specialist supplier to the trade. I'm not in a position to Google right now but will look later. There are various search terms - edging strip, flexible extrusion etc. Usually you can buy by the metre, they often supply rubber mouldings for hatch seals as well.
 
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