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Hi folks,

??? I'm adding electric window openers to a set of casement windows in the cupola of a building I'm working on.? I'd like to keep the existing screens.? To do this, I need to change as little as possible.? I've found I can reuse most of the existing molding, however, there is one action I need to recreate, as the original hand-crank opener required a much bigger hole and it is offset instead of centered.? The end result is that I need to create a strip of molding with a 3/64 radius edge bead on each side to interlock with the existing moldings.

??? I've been trying to find a source for such a thing.? Tools today has an Amana router bit ()? that has this profile, but I would have to do three passes on each side to create the necessary profile.? One to cut the needed bead, and then two passes with a straight cutter to get to the final profile.? I figured it would be worth spending the money on a custom router bit.? I wouldn't mind a custom shaper cutter, but this is a limited run, and custom shaper cutters are about 2x as much as custom router bits.

??? The one vendor I was talking to says that they can't actually make a bit to cut this profile, as the slot is too deep/narrow.? I find this surprising (after all it's only 5/64" deep), but I'm not a tooling manufacturer.? Another manufacturer wants $260, which seems steep to me.

??? Any suggestions on better ways to source or achieve this?? I've looked at catalogs from Whitesite, Freud, Whitehill, and Freeborn.? I'm not finding anything stock that would easily let me create this profile..?

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Michael Garrison Stuber