Repairing a Chair Questions

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Re: Repairing a Chair Questions

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To "repair" the back leg, I would be inclined to plane the broken surface flat, glue on a piece similar wood, and then reshape to match the other leg. For a small piece like that it would probably be faster/easier to do most of the reshaping with hand tools.
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Re: Repairing a Chair Questions

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looks like a very fun project, for the groves if you could find a old chisel at a garage sale you could grind it to do what you want ,we did this,,made our own cutters a lot years ago and clamped them into a home made block . you might try a practice piece using a v shape cutter router bit and then rounding off the edges .
If you were closer I have a couple pieces of ash you could use for the runners I would give you ,, it might be best to make 2 new ones that match.

Wet towels and a hair dryer might loosen up the glue joints. the legs may have tapered holes where they attach to the runners , the other dowels should be straight .looks like it was repaired before . hope ypu take on the project it isnt that bad
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rpd wrote:To "repair" the back leg, I would be inclined to plane the broken surface flat, glue on a piece similar wood, and then reshape to match the other leg. For a small piece like that it would probably be faster/easier to do most of the reshaping with hand tools.
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Like that idea to,im getting lazy i would probably use the disc sander to flatten it
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Re: Repairing a Chair Questions

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rpd wrote:To "repair" the back leg, I would be inclined to plane the broken surface flat, glue on a piece similar wood, and then reshape to match the other leg. For a small piece like that it would probably be faster/easier to do most of the reshaping with hand tools.
I agree, Ron! You saved me from making a similar post.
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