The customer had accidentally snapped the pull off of this drawer, but I had an unbroken one as a model.

The first step was to glue a new piece of walnut onto the broken pull, then roughly shape it to size.

Next, I carved the new block into the shape of the missing section.

Once the carving was complete, I used a solution to artificially age the new wood; this would be easier to color match.

The new hand-carved pull is colored, polished and ready for use.

This beautiful train depot bench was missing a carved piece from the backrest.

Nothing but bare wood where the prior carved detail used to be.

The first step was to cut some wood to the size of the original moulding.

Here I’m working on matching the detail of the original piece (I was doing this work while demonstrating my skills at an event at Atomic Antiques).

Once it was carved and the detail painted, I glued it in place on the bench.

Now the bench is ready to adorn a new home.

Besides a few missing pieces of trim, this hutch was in great shape.

First I copied the existing moulding shape onto a new piece of wood.

I cut new trim using hand planes called “hollows” & “rounds”. Before router bits, this is how all moulding was created.

Now that the new moulding has been milled, it just needs to be cut and installed.

Once in place, I can make the final tweaks to make sure it’s a perfect match.

The last step was to color the new wood then polish it to match.

The entire piece is back together - I challenged the customer to find the repair.