Commercial
Oak headers scribed round carved column capitals
A template traced round each carved capital, then oak header panels cut by hand to wrap them with no visible gap.
- Type of work
- Commercial & trade
- Area
- London
The brief
Oak header panels to run between a row of period columns, meeting each carved capital cleanly.
The tricky part
The capitals are carved, so no two are quite the same — and none of them is a shape you can measure with a tape. Any gap between the oak and the carving would show from across the room.
How I solved it
I made a full-size template for each capital, tracing the profile straight off the carving. Then I transferred the line to the oak and cut it by hand with a coping saw, offering each panel up and easing it until it sat tight.
The result
Oak headers that wrap round the carving with no visible gap. Lower down, I used the same method where the panelling meets the column bases.
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