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Q: The finial on a column in my home was damaged. I’m not abiding what happened, but I’m apprehensive whether this is article I can fix with a copse accompaniment or whether I should detach the finial and alter the damaged part. If backup is the best option, how difficult is it to do, and area am I acceptable to acquisition a analogous finial?
Washington
A: You could alter the missing copse with two-part epoxy, but to accord the adjustment a accomplished look, you’d apparently charge to acrylic at atomic the cap. To accumulate the accustomed copse look, though, you’d charge to pry off the cap and alter it.
If you opt for a patch, aboriginal cut a artificial adjustable knife or an old acclaim agenda so you can use one bend as a shaper to anatomy the contour you charge to match. The artificial needs to accept the abrogating appearance if you accede the copse the absolute shape. After that, the accomplish are simple enough: Brush on a bonding abettor if recommended with the adhering you buy, mix the adhering components, advance the adhering into abode with a adjustable knife or a gloved hand, again appearance the fill. Because you charge alone a little filler, options accommodate the six-ounce kit for PC-Woody copse adhering adhesive ($9.45 at Home Depot) or alike the 1.5-ounce kit of PC-Woody amber adhering adhesive ($5.64 at Lowe’s).
If you opt to alter the cap, use a attenuate prying tool, such as the Grip eight-inch pry bar/nail puller ($17.99 at Woodcraft) to abolish the damaged trim. You’ll charge to blow about a bit to amount out whether there is mitered trim about the abject that you can abolish to accord you admission for appropriation the top of the cap. Or you ability acquisition that the cap was installed as one unit. Slip a adjustable knife brand beneath the pry bar as you assignment so that you don’t accident the post.
It ability be accessible to coursing bottomward a banal backup at a abundance that specializes in salvaged architecture materials, such as Community Forklift in Hyattsville (301-985-5180; communityforklift.org). If you accept alone one column post, the backup cap wouldn’t necessarily charge to be a absolute match; it would aloof charge to fit over the column and accept a appearance that wouldn’t attending odd accustomed the blow of the staircase. However, it ability be added time-efficient to artlessly accomplish a new cap in analogous wood, which from the account you beatific appears to be oak.
A appliance adjustment aggregation can accomplish a alike piece. Or you ability appetite to investigate application the accessories of Woodcraft of Rockville, through its Woodworkers Club (301-984-9033; woodworkersclub.com) or TechShop DC-Arlington (703-302-8780; techshop.ws/arlington.html). Both action admission to woodworking accoutrement already you accept been arrested out on safety. If you can’t absolve the associates fees, conceivably an absolute affiliate would accomplish the backup allotment for you as a favor. Or maybe there is a woodworker in your adjacency or amid your friends. Whoever does the fabrication, be abiding to save atom copse so that you can analysis stains to get as abutting a bout as accessible to the post.
