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Carpentry shop for repairing wooden figurines

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Warm greetings.  Am hoping that someone might be able to recommend a carpentry shop in the Pattaya area that could/might could repair some wooden figurines that I have had for many years and that have split.  Some photos are attached.  Thanks for any assistance that you might provide.

Roger

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While not advise on a repair location, they have split due to the orientation of the original carving in the wood, they look to have been carved from a small diameter branch or young tree so the cracking was virtually inevitable. The stability of any repair will depend on the humidity profile of their location. In most places this varies over the year, if that’s your situation once repaid they will crack again so a repair with a flexible filler is essential.

Further, the cracked bases are in someways the easiest to repair and the most difficult. As they are short grain they will be fragile, with the 2 that have broken in half gluing half the broken part together and leaving the the opened splits to be filled is a good idea, then gluing on a circular 3mm thick piece of plywood as a reenforcement will prevent further cracking splitting of pieces of the base.

 

Don't know about Pattaya, but in Bangkok you have wood street and adjoining soi's. 

I'm sure you'd find somewhere there, depends if you get to BKK often,

As these figurines are mostly carved from a fresh wood such cracks will always occur after some time in a drier ambience. You can try to squeeze it a bit if it moves, and bond it with a glue. 

 

Whatever a gap will afterwards remain be visible you can fill it with a proper filler, look for it in D-I-Y shops. Actually, you can do a mixture of a glue and saw dust, try to achieve the correct color tone.   

 

 

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My thanks to one and all for your suggestions.  All best wishes.

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