Shoddy glass install on original wood front door by previous homeowner?
Can’t figure out how to fix this. Amateur here with a 1904 house, lots of original detail. Trying to make everything a 9.5/10 slowly. There’s a vestibule with two quarter sawn oak doors, both with half glass. The inner door seems to have some sort of glazers putty (1/8″) shoved around the perimeter on one side sloppily. The outer door doesn’t have this. I can only guess the glass broke and they replaced with a lesser thickness which rattled so they shoved putty in the gap? Didn’t originally have a bevel? Outer door doesn’t have any of this (but it does have some bogus Phillips screws holding the casing with stripped heads)
Afraid to pull the casing off. Scared of breaking it. My best option just to try to clean the putty out of the grain and clean up the glass edge with a razor blade? If the glass ever gets broken replace it with the proper thickness?
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If it aint broke, don't fix it.
Consider a wax crayon or marker to blend in the oak color if you are not happy after you clean up the glazing putty
Still trying to figure out why they might have done what they did or advice on how to get the wood putty out of the wood grain. My only guess is to try a heat gun on low and a tooth brush to get enough out so I can even fill it in with a crayon, etc.
It might be glazing putty, which is the right stuff to use when setting a window.
I agree that it may be the last person had a broken window, and replaced it with what they could find.