It looks like a big jigsaw puzzle right now. The idea is get enough pieces together, glue it together with sheetrock mud, patch and plaster to recreate a short run for a shelf. Challenging, but do-able if I persist.
Some very interesting pieces, with a lot of potential. The piece Kay is painting worked out real well. Will you be fastening the longer restored piece on a backing board, or try to get it into position one piece at a time and repair it there? I think I'd be restoring on a board that is routed to reflect the style of your molding. I think it would be so much easier to repair on a table before mounting under a shelf or mantle.
I hadn't thought of building it in place, but I agree that would be the hard way. I saw a guy demonstrate through some photos a way to reproduce original crown molding and have plans to use some of his ideas. A 90° backer board fastened down so it makes a "V" seems fairly easy to join them up with. Depending on how much good material there is I may not use all of the detail, like the dental. Kay doesn't like dental molding anyway, so it may be an easy out.
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Now I'm waiting to see what you do with it.
It looks like a big jigsaw puzzle right now. The idea is get enough pieces together, glue it together with sheetrock mud, patch and plaster to recreate a short run for a shelf. Challenging, but do-able if I persist.
Kaye's fake water putty flower here.
work doodle.
gold leaf highlighting
I'm not building this, just saw some the other day and thought I would pass this simple but attractive idea along.
I have no room to talk. At least you and Kaye will do something with it. Nice.
Looks good. She's an artist.
Look at her go!
If you were up north, it might be a Yankee Doodle
Yep. Stacked material is a great way to accomplish interesting things.
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cool, gonna be nice.
Some very interesting pieces, with a lot of potential. The piece Kay is painting worked out real well. Will you be fastening the longer restored piece on a backing board, or try to get it into position one piece at a time and repair it there? I think I'd be restoring on a board that is routed to reflect the style of your molding. I think it would be so much easier to repair on a table before mounting under a shelf or mantle.
I hadn't thought of building it in place, but I agree that would be the hard way. I saw a guy demonstrate through some photos a way to reproduce original crown molding and have plans to use some of his ideas.
A 90° backer board fastened down so it makes a "V" seems fairly easy to join them up with. Depending on how much good material there is I may not use all of the detail, like the dental. Kay doesn't like dental molding anyway, so it may be an easy out.
Easy is my kind of out.
i wished you lived closer.. i got a ton of junk you could take away.. :)
I wish I had a huge shed to put it in, I would take you up on that junk browsing.
Don't start watching American Pickers. If you do you'll rethink giving away junk.
I draw the line at old rusty oil cans myself.
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