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   calvin | Jul 23, 2010 06:42am | #1

   Nice stuff.

   http://www.flexmolding.com/

   But as you know, even the same moldings bought from one lumberyard may be slightly different-from a different supplier/or a different run time...............

   When I buy flextrim, I get it from the same place I get the moldings that are going to run into it.  Yet still, there are no real guarantees you won't have some adjustment to make in joining.

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   JTC1 | Jul 23, 2010 10:30am | #2

   Pretty much

   the same as calvin said.  My yard will supply flex trim - even prebent (molded) at the factory if needed - like for a curved casing which is bent across the wide dimension.

   Also like calvin said the flex trim profile may not exactly match your wood trim - WMxyz in flex trim may not exactly match WMxyz in the wood which your supplier carries.

   >>I am trimming out a large curved wall<<  so how large is that wall? What is the approximate bending radius? Concave or convex? What is the baseboard contour i.e., is it one piece or a more traditional built-up baseboard? You might be better off to trim the entire wall in flex trim and only deal with any discrepencies in contour at the corners. Or, if a build-up, like 1x6 + cap + shoe, perhaps you could use more traditional techniques like kerfing the back of the 1x6, or built up layers of plywood and only using flex trim for the cap and shoe.  Flex trim = $$.

   Just a thought.

   Jim