AboutGreg Scholl Expertise Questions on Woodworking, wood finishing and refinishing of all kinds, repairing furniture and wooden objects, Architectural details, Woodturning, carving, tool usage, product usage, some chemistry as it applies to woodworking and related interests,cabinet making and furniture construction/design, etc. I have experience with all manners of colorants, finishes, paints, stains, dyes, glazes, and coatings, wood species recognition and usage,tool recommendations, blade types and recommendation,techniques and methods for many Woodworking related issues, etc.
Experience Fine furniture restorer and cabinet maker for over 30 years,serving high end Antique dealers, Interior designers, Collectors in the CT area. Consulting for area Painting/Decorating and Building contractors on non painting issues..(staining, wood prep.,clear finishing, floor restoration and architectural detail restoration and repair, etc.) Sold, built, serviced, setup Home, Industrial, and Commercial stationary woodworking tools for a major tool retailer in CT. for three years, sold hand and power tools , provided knowledge, parts replacement, service, and on site service, Trade show Demo, and training as well.
Publications Published in Fine Woodworking Magazine (12/97), included on Fine Woodworkings first "Best of Fine Woodworking" CD-ROM (2002) ...("27 year compilation of expert know-how")
Education/Credentials Art School at Silvermine Guild in Norwalk, CT., 9 year apprenticeship in a European run Cabinet and Restoration shop in CT., various classes on subjects having to do with the field. Seminars from major Tool manufacturers, Skil/Bosch, Delta, Powermatic, Ritter, Porter cable, Milwaukee, Dewalt/B&Decker, Performax.
Past/Present Clients Many varied clients including work on Martha Stewarts' Westport, CT. show house, many fine Antique dealers and private collectors in and around Fairfield County and in Woodbury, CT. (the Antiques capital of CT.), Golden Age of Trucking Museum, Wilton Historical Society.
Question I have wooden dresser with wooden knobs (soft wood I think a type of pine wood) that constantly fall off. The wood is rounded smooth on the inside of the knob. To attach the wooden knob to the dresser, you have to screw the knob clockwise onto a threaded piece of metal the sticks out from the dresser drawer. Then there is a metal screw that gets attached from the inside of the dresser drawer. It passes through the inside of the threaded metal piece, which is smooth on the inside, and has the wooden knob attached to it from the outside of the drawer. The screw only goes into the wooden knob about a 1/8 inch or less. But the knob has about a 1/4 inch to screw onto the threaded metal piece. So it almost seems useless to have a screw on the inside? I guess if there was a nut on the inside of the wooden know I could understand it being there. Not sure of the best approach to fix this I have heard that filling hole with wood such as toothpick, or golf tee and then drilling a small pilot hole might work, but this doesn't seem like it would be a strong enough fix
Answer Hi Alex, this sounds like a bizarre arrangement, and one I haven't seen, unless the threaded piece of metal was actually a threaded insert that was installed into the knob, and then the screw threaded into the insert....and now both are stripped, meaning the threads in the insert are stripped, and smooth-ish, and the hole in the knob is stripped as well....I hope that makes sense...lol, especially if the screw only reaches into the know 1/8" or less. Is it a screw, with a pointed end?...or is it a bolt with a flat tip? I would remove the threaded piece that's on the drawer face, twisting it with a pair of pliers..(you may find it comes right off),drill out the knob on a drill press to an accurate hole size, say 5/16", then glue a dowel into the hole to fill it. Then, after dry, cut the dowel off flush, and then I would get longer screws (screws...with a point) that penetrated into the knob at least 3/8", and drill a pilot hole in the filled knob and screw it on the new, longer screw. Post back if that's as hard to read as it looks.....regards- Greg
