Traditional wood bar arm rest molding with cropped corners.

When building a home or commercial bar of any size or shape at some point in the process you will need to decide how to deal with the corner or corners of the bar rail molding. The standard option for navigating turns in bar rail molding is the simple 90 degree mitered corner. Although this option may be a fast and easy way to make the corner it can result in a somewhat sharp edge at the very tip of the miter that can be a little tough on your guests. There is another option.  How about taking the edge off your bar rail with a cropped corner? Pictured below is our BR475 Bar rail molding cut with a 45 degree insert as a softer alternative to the standard 90 degree mitered corner.

45 Degree Bar Rail Corner

The cropped corner is accomplished by first cutting 1-1/2″ to 2″ off the corner of the bar top on a 45 degree angle and then mitering the three bar rail molding pieces around the corner. If a larger cropped corner is desired you will need to cut more off the corner of bar top in step one.

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Posted in: Bar Building, Bar Rail Installation, Bar Rails, Chicago Bar Rails

2 Responses

  1. Christopher Bartlett says:

    Are you able to ship chicago bar rail to the UK?

    Many thanks

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From the quick response to my phone call to the quick delivery of the bar rail Hardwoods is great to work with. I looked at several different bar rail companies and found this product the easiest to use and the quality was superb. The end product is beautiful. My customer is ecstatic!!

John D. – Port Jefferson Station, New York

02/15/2020

BR450 Bar rail molding.

Ordered the 8′-10,” a 3′ piece of red oak and a 12″ radius corner. All of the pieces arrived in excellent condition and in a timely manner. The wood is very nice looking, straight, very well cut/shaped. The pieces butted up together with little sanding needed to smooth out the joints.

Ed H. – Louisville, Kentucky

07/11/19

BR475 Bar rail molding and radius corner.