Have you tried 4d modelshop?

This is not a model boat shop, but a place specialising in materials and services for architectural modelling.They should be well up on display cases….

Bob

This looks like a straightforward 90° triangular section rather than a complex spindle-moulding. If that is the case (oops – sorry) then the section could be reproduced by someone with a table saw and a supply of sapele.

Dave M

Perhaps I should have been a bit more explicit. This is a site providing services and materials for the sorts of models that architects make to illustrate proposed buildings, etc.

All of these will, of course, be one-off items, and may well be encased in their own one-off display cases, which will also need to be made. The site (and shop) stocks a very wide range of modelling materials for architectural purposes, but must also be used to servicing specialist requirements for all sorts of odd items, such as short runs of mouldings to make bespoke display cases.

I was suggesting that you talk to them about what you need. This is a field they specialise in, so they should understand what you want, and if they cannot provide it they should be able to direct you to someone who can…

Incidentally, the shape you require looks as if it could be most easily cut by taking a rectangular length of sapele and running an electric plane along it at an angle.  I made up some window sills for my shed to pretty much the same cross-section that way out of pine….

Edited By Dodgy Geezer on 18/05/2016 10:20:31

To add to DM's precision illustration, here is a similar shape in softwood, cut from rectangle stock by running an electric plane along it by eye…

Just to explain why the blade is set only to half the included angle: If you turn the workpiece over after step #3 you can keep on turning out triangular sections with identical angles until you have enough – or run out of sapele. You then set the blade back at vertical and run the strips through with two different rip-fence settings to square off the edges and produce identical strips. This is the type of job which would be given to a cabinet-maker's apprentice or, in my case, the bloke who normally drew the plans and packed the kits! It isn't rocket-science.

Dave M

Bob,

Proxxon does two different small, table top circular saws, one called the FET (**LINK**, and an even smaller one, the KS230 (**LINK**). The latter, though, would probably not be much use for the pruposes discussed here, as I believe it doesn't have the possibility to tilt the sawblad for a bevel cut, while the former is fairly expensive (£300+, I think) …

Another table top circular saw I've been looking at (allright: drooling over) is the one from Byrnes Model Machines in the US: **LINK**, although with some added bells and whistles plus freight from the US, It'd be even more expensive than the Proxxon (not to mention that one would in all likelihood have to pay import duty and VAT on top). I suspect, though, that this one would be a rather good tool, and so will go on drooling over it …

/Mattias