Newel Disaster

[fattony]

Well I was trying to fix the wobble in the banister and found the newels were not glued to the newel base, just a few small screws, so I removed the screws poured glue into the newel base and re fitted the newel with 3 inch screws.

This work fine for 2 of the newels but the 3rd was I noticed a split in the newel base, as I took the screws out the split became bigger and as the newel came out a chunk of the newel base came with it :( wtf am I going to do with it now?

This is what Im left with

[img]http://www.diynot.com/network/fattony/albums/3888/15467][img]http://media.diynot.com/33000_32696_15467_37982213_thumb.jpg[/img]

You can see the newel used to slot into the newel base, can I buy a new new base, cut out the old base and bolt the new newel to the large joists running next to it? If not wtf can I do?