help with identifying skirting profile please

[gentlegreen]

I've fallen in love with the skirting and architrave used in one of the buildings at the campus where I work. :-

)

Is it oak ?

Does anyone know what the style is called ?

thanks...

[dom]

Hard to tell for certain what wood it is, but could be oak. Oak would certainly make a superb quality copy. Style may not have a name or may be a special specified by the architect.

If you want some, go to a specialist hardwood timber merchant like Atkins & Cripps

or British Hardwoods and they will be able to cut a custom moulding for you (this will be expensive!).

Alternativley, it looks simple enough to cut on a table saw or router for smallish quantities.

[Rob Morley]

No

[Weatherlawyer]

And even if it was, it wouldn't be the name of a profile. It is probably beech but it could be almost anything from chestnut to parana pine. You could make it yourself with stips of ecterior ply with a chamfer taken off and a srip of square section planted on top of the finished work.

Alternatively use a simple vee cutter in a router and cut the excess off with an edge cutter or a bench saw if you have one. I would never use parana pine. It is absolute crap.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Campus, thats american term for college ain't it?

Anyway 5" or 6" wood in whatever type you prefer can be easily routed to the desired profile you like.