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O’Kane Notebook III: Making Wedges

  We’ve been using softwood wedges, made from 2x stock, to carefully remove delicate moldings and wide wall panels.  Either the wedges loosen the nails completely, or they provide use with enough room to slip a sawblade behind to cut the nail.  Like ziploc tupperware, they can be reused, but eventually the edges get grungy,…

April 25, 2012 in Houses, O'Kane Farmhouse, Preservation, Trim.

Arron Sturgis

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