Nov 27, 2013

Restoring round columns

Most folks would call this garbage but these heart pine columns deserve a second chance at life. After working out the radius in autoCAD, we first attempted to piece it all together at once, which failed miserably. Second try was a charm. Today we shape the curve with a hand plane. 







Looks good from this angle but the joints were too wide. 

This way worked!




Restoring balusters





Mike and Syd rebuilt the base of half of the poor balusters. Some were poplar and some dense heart pine. The new bases are fir and are connected with dowels.