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Do you recognize this moulding? My customer's customer found this online. I have no scale to work with but her photo will be in the 24x30 range. So something like this in a 1 1/2" - 2" would be great.

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Presto Moulding has exactly that moulding.
Don Mar will chop it if you want.
But, it's 7/8" wide.
Probably would still work.
 
Larson and Decor both have it in a 9/16" face. It's called a "Bound Reed"... When it was carved they would include the heads of the wheat....
It's an early Roman adornment that stands for prosperity in harvest. But when you're making 10,000' at a time in 8' lengths.... no food source. . . so the "Bound Wheat" or "Abundant Harvest" becomes reeds. Pity. All of it is being currently produced on snotwood (IMHO).
 
Looks like Presto 494 to me, but its only 3/4" or so.

Shenandoah Framing is another chop distributor of this...
 
Dave, just scaled off the prints as 8x10s (pretty standard for that style) and considered the exposed white of the print to be 1/2" so the 3/4" moulding makes a lot more sense.

Plus the LJ and D 1/2" mouldings don't have that little extra lip on them.
 
Baer Charlton said:
Dave, just scaled off the prints as 8x10s (pretty standard for that style) and considered the exposed white of the print to be 1/2" so the 3/4" moulding makes a lot more sense.

Plus the LJ and D 1/2" mouldings don't have that little extra lip on them.
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So Baer,


what don't you know?
 
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Baer Charlton said:
Larson and Decor both have it in a 9/16" face. It's called a "Bound Reed"... When it was carved they would include the heads of the wheat....
It's an early Roman adornment that stands for prosperity in harvest. But when you're making 10,000' at a time in 8' lengths.... no food source. . . so the "Bound Wheat" or "Abundant Harvest" becomes reeds. Pity. All of it is being currently produced on snotwood (IMHO).
Click to expand...

So Baer,


what don't you know?
 
I talked with my customer and we agreed that 3/4" moulding was just to small for the project. I sent her this one to show her client. It has the bound reed pattern but is 2". I hope their customer likes it.
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Roman bound reeds, early Renaissance cross fluted ribbing and Mesopotamian corn and peas sight lip. Hmm spans about 1600 years of design . . . I'd say it's a classic.

HB: Oh stop.

HB: Oh stop.

:D
 
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