Lovely work. I'm impressed by your ability to match the color so well. The amount of metal encountered in some previous repairs is truly astounding! Thanks for sharing.
Elaine - many thanks! It helped that I was using oak with oak for the colour matching, I find less variation in how the stain will come up compared to say pine where two differently aged pieces of pine side by side can be markedly different. As to the metalwork - yes I agree …it really is not a long term solution to add a nail or screw in the middle of a furniture joint, but this was extreme. Glad you enjoyed and thanks for commenting!
Well, that was a bit of a bodge job. The original repair I mean not yours!😁 A great job Bruce, perfectly matched and you'd be hard pressed to see the repair even if you knew that there had been one. I'm sure the future customer will be very happy.
Thanks! Always appreciate your comments. Yes I didn’t film removing the tape because I thought it was going to be a simple break - but oh no …it was a bodge job for sure - multiple times over and I think each one with more metal! Thanks again
Hi Anton - great question. My thinking was that clearly there has been a lot of force on this joint in the past, not once but many times (at least three or four previous repairs) so I knew it had to be strong. When I decided to cut the leg I made the angle as long as possible to get as much edge grain to edge grain surface area ...however I worried that this would still be a weak point. Choosing the angle so the new piece was on top of the old rather than the other way round I thought would help ...but I still wanted as strong a joint as possible and so yes I did choose modern glue. I don't think anyone will need to take that apart with heat (they could just cut it) ...but yes the bridal joint could have been glued with hide glue to help with future repair, though this also had reduced wood to wood contact due to the nail holes and screw holes so again I went with modern glue. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Wow, fantastic, Bruce! Work of art! 👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks Ce!
Lovely work. I'm impressed by your ability to match the color so well. The amount of metal encountered in some previous repairs is truly astounding! Thanks for sharing.
Elaine - many thanks! It helped that I was using oak with oak for the colour matching, I find less variation in how the stain will come up compared to say pine where two differently aged pieces of pine side by side can be markedly different. As to the metalwork - yes I agree …it really is not a long term solution to add a nail or screw in the middle of a furniture joint, but this was extreme. Glad you enjoyed and thanks for commenting!
Up close this is even more impressive than it seems on the video. Craftsmanship indeed!
Thanks Pete - I did manage to get a chisel into this one!
Well, that was a bit of a bodge job. The original repair I mean not yours!😁 A great job Bruce, perfectly matched and you'd be hard pressed to see the repair even if you knew that there had been one. I'm sure the future customer will be very happy.
Thanks! Always appreciate your comments. Yes I didn’t film removing the tape because I thought it was going to be a simple break - but oh no …it was a bodge job for sure - multiple times over and I think each one with more metal! Thanks again
Perfect fix 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Bete - always appreciate your comments!
It turned out great.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed
Beautiful work, thank you for the video. But why do you use modern glue for the joints on antics?
Hi Anton - great question. My thinking was that clearly there has been a lot of force on this joint in the past, not once but many times (at least three or four previous repairs) so I knew it had to be strong. When I decided to cut the leg I made the angle as long as possible to get as much edge grain to edge grain surface area ...however I worried that this would still be a weak point. Choosing the angle so the new piece was on top of the old rather than the other way round I thought would help ...but I still wanted as strong a joint as possible and so yes I did choose modern glue. I don't think anyone will need to take that apart with heat (they could just cut it) ...but yes the bridal joint could have been glued with hide glue to help with future repair, though this also had reduced wood to wood contact due to the nail holes and screw holes so again I went with modern glue. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!