A while ago a lady brought these two items into the Crieff Repair Hub for repair.
I have them in my workshop at home where I am converting the child’s chair to a stool and attempting to repair the second from Papua-New Guinea. Current progress below.
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Nice work. Not being a wood person, it feels like that second one would not have been fixable - how did you go about it?
I first ran wood glue along the broken surfaces after cleaning off the old glue and clamped it into place with multiple clamps (I should have taken pictures of this). A day later I removed the clamps, turned it upside down and drilled and screwed the piece in place, from the underside, at an angle in both directions to strengthen the repair. Then I added filler over a few days.
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The stool is slowly coming together. The filler has dried on one join completely and I have sanded down and I’m happy with the repair. The other join had a much larger gap and has required much more filler and is therefore drying much more slowly. Here are pictures of both joins as they stand now.
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If you can salvage some sawdust from the table/item then this makes for a good colour match when making up the filler for the void. Looks like a great repair. I wouldn’t have had the confidence to repair that.
