I received a great email from my customer who I did work for on their grandfather’s heirloom table. Hey Kevin, It’s great to hear from you, we must have been on the same wavelength, because I was at my grandfather’s house over the weekend, and snapped this photo for you actually with the intent to …
Well, the heirloom table was completed, finished and delivered to the customer. He seemed pretty happy with the results, and it was definitely and interesting repair – trying to take off the pieces without doing any damage, determining what to fix and what to replace, and then getting the work done. Good experience!
Entering the home stretch! I’ve managed to get the legs and lower scrollwork finished and rebuilt. The lower scrollwork is screwed in vs. the original dowel & glue. I also glued it, but I believe the screws are necessary to keep the legs together and keep the item from breaking apart. The legs were first, …
Well, the repair continues. I asked a friend of mine to do the scrollwork bottom section, as he is a lot better at that sort of detail work. It took him some time to copy, based on the badly damaged pieces we had available, but I think he did an excellent job. I also did …
Fixing up the last bit of the legs. Was able to glue in all the spare pieces that had broken off that were left, except for two parts. The railing on one side had broken apart, and the pieces were long gone. I put together a mixture of epoxy, covered the sides with tape to …
With the table disassembled, its time to start repairing the legs and table stretchers, so that we can work on new joinery. Luckily, a lot of the pieces that partially split off were able to be separated and re-glued up. With good glue and a clean place to join, this should be stronger than the …
There are two legs which are either completely shot or very loose Two of them are pretty solid. I spent about 4 days trying to loosen up the glue in the joints of the legs that were bad with white vinegar (old method to loosen glue up). Unfortunately, I was only able to loosen them …
So I was asked to look at repairing an heirloom table. I’ve done some furniture repairs in the past, but this will be a different one for me. The table was given by someone’s great-grandfather to his grandfather as an offering at his wedding, and the grandson has had it for 10+ years in the …
