After having received the re-made wood from my contact, I had to come up with a place to do some rebuilding work. I decided to work on the body pieces in the basement.
Now the basement is already crowded as is, what with 26 sewing machines and several bins and boxes of HO scale trains. I do not have a garage. In fact, my first Model T was restored in a building my father bought, and then I transferred it to a storage shed when I moved and finished it. Even then, parts of the car were restored in the basement.
And so it is with the Center Door. I also thought this would be a good place to hide it from my significant other, and I did manage to get away with that for about six months.
My first work project was to remove broken nails out of the surviving wood structure pieces using a nail puller, vice grips, wood chisel and blood. I almost sliced the tip of my thumb off. OUCH! But, that's not what I said.
The photo above shows the aftermath of having to dig out broken nails. The resulting holes were filled with epoxy filler. West System was recommended to me, and that's what I went with.
I knew that eventually I would have to try my hand at wood replication. So I started small.
The two curved pieces are the rear corners of the ROOF RAIL ASSEMBLY. There was enough of one that survived, although it was broken, for me to replicate both.
This is the original that survived. I wasn't 100 percent sure what side it was for, but I knew that both pieces were mirror images.
I had done some woodwork before, as I used to make ammunition boxes for Civil War reenactment and living history programs. Below is one of those.
In the words of Johnny Carson: "More to Come".
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