Re: Foam vs. Wood, what are you deciding factors?
For anything below 8' or so I sort of agree, wood is the way to go because of abuse that
molding is going to take from actors and set pieces bumping into it. For
Crown molding, Capitals, Corbels, Dental's, ornate panels and the like, Foam is the way to go. Length? Yeah I can order 20' foam products, if I wanted to pay the shipping. Price? You cannot even begin to compare the price of something like an extremely ornate
Cornice molding from Northwest Foam Products, to the exorbitant price of actually producing such a
molding in real < including
MDF> wood.
Green ? I'd do some looking and thinking. Think about the amount of energy required to Log, process, mill, sand and prep, ship, cut and assemble a piece of finger-jointed hemlock
casement as opposed to the amount of energy require to take raw polystyrene, expand it, make a
billet of foam, hot
wire said
billet, then ship cut and assemble. I realize there are other costs in there and that Oil drilling has a lot of associated negatives < Like wars and stuff> However, Foam is going to be produced as long as we use Oil for any other purpose. People are beginning to recycle more forms of PLastics and foams and this technology is only going to expand for the foreseeable future, imho.