I have an old Victorian house and the spindles are not the original ones. I would like to replace them, but unfortunately the base and hand rail, which I was only going to strip does not have the usual cut out to accomodate a spindle, eg in order to countersink the base and top of the spindles and spacers. Therefore should I use a router to widen the gap or just nail the spindles into place - which I presume would have to be cut very accurately. If this is the case is there a neater way of doing this so that the pins would not show?
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