Repairing a crack

Are you planning on refinishing the chair?

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Yes, probably a dark walnut. Looks really isn’t a factor. It is in bad shape and only used for toddlers. The lady just wants to keep it in the family. It is about 40 years old.

-- Bill - "Freedon flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy

This is a picture of the chair, it is toddler size.

-- Bill - "Freedon flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy

Without taking it all apart, I would see about some epoxy. Keep working it in until it wont take any more. Then wait and work it in some more. It should be fine and if not, you would have had to resort to scarfing in another piece anyway so you really don’t have anything to lose.

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I will try that David. Thanks for the idea. I was thinking about some sort of spline but I thought it would just weaken the wood having to cut into it.

-- Bill - "Freedon flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy

I’ve had good luck thinning Titebond II slightly with water and letting it flow into cracks with a little help from a squeegie, and then clamping as best as I can. I recently fixed the crack in the forearm of an O/U shotgun this way.

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Epoxy or layers of CA glue .

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

I’ll put the third vote in for epoxy.

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Thanks gents I put some Epoxy in there and will see how it works. I am hoping not to have to do any surgery on it, I have already put butterflies and dowels in three places.

-- Bill - "Freedon flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy

I vote for epoxy also. You might try putting the resin and hardener bottles in some very warm water for about 10 minutes,before you mix them, to thin it out. Then inject it into the crack with a syringe and needle. The warm mix will flow better but will cut down the cure time, so if you using the quick set epoxy, don’t waste any time getting it in there.

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Thanks Tim, I opened it up as much as possible and got as much as possible in there, if it doesn’t work well I will end up scarfing some pieces on and making it look as good as I can.. Had to look up Scarfing, thanks for the lesson David.

-- Bill - "Freedon flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy

Wish I’d seen this a bit sooner. Typically, when I have to fix (or stabilize) a crack, a check or anything similar to the issues you have here, I do use epoxy (West Systems) But I thin it with Xylene first. You can thin the epoxy to such a degree(almost like water) that when you apply it to the crack with a syringe, the epoxy is drawn in very deep.
The epoxy takes longer to set up when it’s mixed with Xylene (depends how much you thin it), but other than that, it works very well.

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No worries Tony, I think I got in there pretty good.

-- Bill - "Freedon flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy

http://www.amazon.com/M5-Thin-Viscosity-CA-Glue/dp/B000XIIZAQ this product is thin already. Turners use it all the time to file cracks .

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Thanks Jim, I will have to get some and try it out.

-- Bill - "Freedon flies in your heart like an Eagle" Audie Murphy