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Saw a historic house in Astoria with some wild trim work
I was walking past the Flavel House Museum last weekend and the exterior trim on the gables stopped me cold. It's all these compound curves and layered brackets, cut from what looks like old growth fir, and not a single nail head showing. Made me wonder how they even laid that out before power tools. What's the most complex trim profile you've ever had to match or recreate?
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rose_cooper1mo ago
The Flavel House trim is original to the 1885 build. The museum has the carpenter's notebook. He used full size chalk layouts on the warehouse floor for those scroll brackets. Matching that fir grain for a repair was the real trick.
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Wasn't that trim added in a later renovation though?
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