Over the winter some mice devoured a huge section of foam on one of the corners of my Obelisk grave marker.
So, in an attempt to turn lemons into lemonade, I am going to treat the chewed-away section as though it is a chunk of the stone that was damaged at some point in time. This means sanding the teeth marks away and re-painting the stone.
Since I’m going to be doing that, I also have a little upgrade I will be making to the stone. Back at the very first Massachusetts Make and Take meeting, we all made foam skull castings. Mine had gotten a little deformed and was turned into a half skull. I am upgrading the the stone by attaching this skull to one of the faces of the obelisk.
Here is the progress I managed to make today. I sanded the damaged section, stripped the paint off of the portion the skull will be attached to, and glued on the skull. I also patched all the gaps, dents, dings, etc with wood putty.
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- Mouse Damage
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- Sanded Paint
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- Skull Being Glued
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- Filling in the Gaps
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- Obelisk In-Process
