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   Frankie | Dec 06, 2002 04:47am | #1

   Try using thinner MDF.

   If this doesn't work, use wiggle plywood. It's more stable after the fact anyway.

   Never wet MDF. It'll just swell rather than bend like GWB.

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   jako17 | Dec 06, 2002 05:43am | #2

   Is the base a complex profile ? I assume you are purchasing it from  a lumber yard.How about ripping it into 1/8 strips and bending it round a form.Assuming you can get the profile in wood.This requires a lot of material as you lose the kerf each cut .These pieces have to come out of another piece of base. I  try and cut slices equal  to the kerf as Ifind it easier figure out the second series of cuts to fill in the kerfs of the first series of cuts. Then laminate them up round a form.Otherwise cut the profile in sheet metal and shape it in in plaster.This however requires talents that I do not have.But I have seen it done with complex victorian base

                                     Jako

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   bashingthumb | Dec 06, 2002 08:27am | #3

   its standard "home depot" 4" base. i like your idea. however, i think it would really fall apart if i did that. i'm thinking more and more that a real wood base would hold up to bending  than would MDF. just have to match the profile for the rest of the house. or something close since it is a small isolated space.

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   jocobe | Dec 06, 2002 02:03pm | #4

   http://www.flextrim.com/

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   bashingthumb | Dec 09, 2002 05:37am | #5

   thanks for the info. boy that stuff is $$$$$$!

   alex

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   Piffin | Dec 09, 2002 06:18am | #6

   cheap compared to all the labor and how many mistakes did you say you're willing to throw out?.

   Excellence is its own reward!

   "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.

   The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

   --Marcus Aurelius

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   nigelUsa | Dec 12, 2002 01:21am | #7

   Cut deeper and closer together from the back the fill the cut seen from the top with car body filler.