Sisters table has broken legs. It is a shame really as it is pretty old table and still pretty good nick. After looking at it best we can do is glue and the try and brace the base a bit more.
Now big sis wants to sand whole table back and redo just to spruce up. Now we all love wood, but her house has heaps of natural wood showing and with the table, it actually becomes to much so she is thinking of … eeeek painting it. (shock horror I know, but I actually on this occasion agree with her, sad but true.)
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- Broken leg also had a crack which also broke a piece off so need to glue that back together first. It became a fiddly clamping exercise there was no straight angles.
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- Cut old dowel level with rest of leg to make easier to drill out.
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- Sanded and ready to see if we can redrill out. But first …
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- Well that was interesting clamp… It looks as if one clamp is actually doning nothing but in reality it is stopping the broken piece from sliding up. I wonder how the main part will work… I was hoping to get away with one clamp, but of course not… anyway it looks off but that’s where it needs the bit of pressure to hold.
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- You can see the join that has been reglued.
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- Broken join and the dowels are broken. On the right the leg has come loose but no broken dowels. So can glue and clamp that one back on.
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- bugger missed a bit
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- Better
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- You can help fix it too sis!… oh by the way helps to have tounge to the right…
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- More sanding… still have a long way to go…
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- First leg clamed… hmmm that was a awkward one to do too. But is a test to see if we can do it before we do the truly broken leg.
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- Drilled and re-doweled
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- an awkward clamp
The sanding process… I seem to to do a lot of it. Sanding back to bare wood… meh its just pine. But this is the fixed leg and it is smooth and once painted you won’t see the join. Along way to go…. now were is that heat gun…
Ummm I do hope she was serious when she said it is being painted because there is no going back now…
16 November 2011
Been a bit slack… so back into it…
