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Repairing an old chair.. the friendly way.

2/11/2017

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​Just a wobbly old chair, well maybe not just. There was a crack that went thru to one of the back legs with all consequences of... falling apart. It was just a matter of a little brace, some dowels and some glue... Here's the process of repairing an antique chair without making it look like a new one.
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The crack in the seat at one of the rear legs. Taking all apart without damaging the parts.
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Chiseling out the place for the bracket (mahogany) gluing in, drilling holes and some reinforcement with dowels. Planing the bracket but leaving it just a millimeter proud of the surface, a repair to an antique chair should look like it's been done sometime ago.
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The back was lose to, 2 10 mm beech dowels were hammered in all the way thru the tenons of the back. The three insite thinner parts of the back got the same treatment, only with 8 mm dowels.
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The legs were cut 1 mm shorter, so the fitting became tighter. It's great to find that a little Japanese pull saw is capable to cut slices of 1 mm. You can't use to much glue if there's room for it to squeeze out of the joint.
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The oak legs were put back into the cherry wood seat. It's up to the owner of the chair whether to leave the repair visible or not.
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