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I can't find a match for any of this woodwork here
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What happens if you've got an old home and you want to match a piece of woodwork
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both either inside or outside your house, or maybe you're going to build a new home, do a room addition
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and you want to create a brand new personal woodwork all your own
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What do you do? You have to get it custom milled. The custom milling process starts by taking a sample of your existing woodwork or even a drawing
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And from that, what the people do is they go ahead and make a custom knife and they grind this out a special hardened steel on a machine that creates the exact profile of the woodwork you're looking for
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They take that custom knife loaded into a machine called a shaper, and that's the machine that actually takes raw lumber and produces the finished custom profile
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They feed the lumber into one end of the machine, and out the other end of the machine comes the finished woodwork
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It's really that simple. These machines run quickly. They can produce up to a thousand feet of molding per hour
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and it's affordable when you start to deal on large quantities. Okay, I got you excited about getting custom woodwork
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Well, what do you do? How do you buy it? First thing to do is go ahead and visit a local lumberyard or possibly a home center
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and take in your drawings or your sample pieces and talk to one of the salespeople
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They're the ones that will get the process started. Okay, Joe, I'm ready to get these things made up
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Okay, Tim, let's see what we got here. All right. That's how easy it is
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