"Charles Bishop" wrote in message
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In article , "Joseph Meehan"
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Charles Bishop wrote:
I need molding that looks like the old fashioned plaster molding used
to
"picture frame" walls. That's the best I know how to describe it. It
would
be half round, detailed, and was used to make a plain wall more
interesting.
Something like this

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Ideally it would be foam of some sort, rather than plaster.

Anyone know of a source?

charles

Most any Lumber Yard or DIY store should have stuff along that line.
It
comes in wood and foam.

I think I didn't explain my attempt at drawing-it's supposed to be the
outline of the finished "picture frame" where the lines are the molding
forming a picture frame, not the outline of the molding itself. The
corners are actually curved, rather than the straight lines I show. The
molding itself is very ornate with vines on it.

I did some Googling after I posted here and there are on line sources.
It's called panel molding and does come in plaster and polyurethane, but I
can't find anything that looks similar, especially the corners.

charles

You are probably working with somewhat larger molding, but I've repaired
large antique picture frames, 3'x5', with 4" wide molding, corners and
straight sections, by making a molds of a good section, casting the piece in
plaster and gluing it in. There are flexible latex and vinyl compounds
available from art supply stores for this use. Matching the finish was the
hard part.