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A former co-worker asked me to make two table leaves for their dining room table. When I went by to take a look at the table, I saw one of the chairs in the set in his fire wood pile. He said that he had tried to glue it, but typical of these chairs, the joints were screwed and glued, not tapered joints. I cut off the ends of the bow and tapered those and drilled through holes in the bow to accept the taped spindles. I did this for two reasons, one, to compensate for the shorter bow dimension, it needed to be through the seat, and to strengthen the joints of the spindles. All the repaired joints were tapered, glued, and wedged for strength. I think this chair is better than new now. Please see
firstlightwoodworking.blogspot.com for more details and photos.
-- Rick, Union,KY firstlightwoodworking.blogspot.com
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Skylark53
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#1 posted 771 days ago
No doubt-better than new. Great work.
-- Rick, Tennessee, John 3:16
RickL
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#2 posted 771 days ago
Thanks Rick, your comments are always welcome. Deke I do have some experience at chairmaking, I had training at the Windsor Institute with Mike Dunbar and to be honost, I’m not sure I would have attempted this repair had I not had that training. That’s not to say your approach wouldn’t work, but despite all the experience I have in woodworking, chair making remained somewhat a mystery until recently. Thanks for your comments.
-- Rick, Union,KY firstlightwoodworking.blogspot.com
jack1
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#3 posted 770 days ago
Good job.
-- jack -- ...measure once, curse twice!
CSlabon
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#4 posted 763 days ago
Great job. I just repaired a rocker with the tennons of the main spindles of the back broken off. I drilled out the center and turned new tennons to glue into the end of the spindles. Sometimes I like repair work as well as new building. Very challenging.
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