Bespoke

Dresser operates a service for customers who have special projects for timber products not featured in our catalogue.

We have supplied architectural items for the renovation of historical buildings, private clients who are building or refurbishing their own homes, commercial properties, leisure outlets designing themed premises, religious buildings including churches.

In some cases we have been asked to copy ornate carved features to a customers particular requirement.

The following examples are a few items we have been asked to do.

If you have a special project involving wood carving please contact us us for a prompt response.

Photo: Large barley twist column reproduced from the design of two oak originals salvaged in Ireland.

Replacement carvings for a historic building

Many historical buildings during their life can fall into disrepair, sometimes due to change of use or more often due to neglect.
A fact that is true in the west is that the craftsmen whose skills produced the features on our historic buildings have slowly disappeared. Whilst it is true that there are specialist people who can still carve in stone and wood a refurbishment project can sometimes not be economically viable. This following project shows how Dresser copied some architectural timber carvings for the restoration of the Victorian Winter Gardens theatre in Morecambe UK.

The image left shows three pieces of the pilaster capital. These were the only sections available.

Dresser were presented with a few examples of the carvings that were left. These samples were damaged, rotted, and covered in paint as can seen in the image on the right.

With the aid of computer editing we were able to reconstruct a computer image of the large pilaster capital. The carvers had a picture model to work with. Once the dimensions had been established the items were carved to their original shape.

The image left shows the finished carving made from the model computer image.

The final carvings produced are shown below together with a picture of the restored building.

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If you have a project requiring custom carving ,Contact us to discuss your requirements and we will respond promptly.

Morecambe Winter Gardens building sketch and photo courtesy of Mr Stephen Gardner, Lancaster Design Services  

Large Gargoyle based on our catalogue carving DC94

A customer contacted us asking whether it would be possible to make one of the carvings in our Architectural Carvings catalogue larger.

The smaller gothic gargoyle is our standard product coded DC94.

We have added a pencil to give this image some kind of scale.
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The finished sizes of these gargoyles were height 610mm.( 24") x width 225mm ( 9") x projection 460mm ( 18")

These gargoyles are now in Norway.

If you have a project requiring custom carving, contact us to discuss your requirements and we will respond promptly.