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Home Improvement > Moldings & Wood Trim > How to Replicate Old Door Casing

Learn how to route casing to build and match Victorian doorway casing.

Route the decorative grooves on the lengths of casing, matching them to the original. Use a table-mounted router and pass the planks through the high-speed cutting bit standing on their edges. You will route one edge, then flip the wood end-to-end so that the same flat surface of the wood faces the bit. Confirm the orientation of the plank and then route the second edge with the same bit. Note there you now see a right side and a wrong side to the board.
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