Furniture Repair

First you must figure out the way you want to do the repair, get a plan. For this tutorial, we will be fixing a broken arm on a dining room chair. As you can see form the photo its a fairly clean break and this should be an easy fix even considering my limited furniture building skills lol, so lets get started.

Repairing Furniture.

Step One - OK first thing you want to do is remove any type of debris that may prevent the two pieces of wood from fitting back together flush. Any nails, screws, glue, fragments of wood or anything else, remove it. You can use any sort of tools for this from a razor blade to a sharp kitchen knife, just make sure its as clean as possible.

After you clean the break, try to fit the two pieces of wood back together, make sure it fits good. If it does fit nice and snug, move on to step two. If it doesn't, keep cleaning and chipping the debris away until you get a good snug fit.
 

Step Two - In this case, I am going to use a small dowel, a drill, a hammer, and some glue. First I am going to drill a small hole (just smaller than the dowel itself) in each of the broken halves of furniture. Make sure not to go too deep on either one, the depth needs to be split equally amongst the two pieces. Then I want to take the glue and make sure I get the dowel completely covered in glue, you can use your fingers or whatever.

Here you can see the two holes I drilled in the chair. This is where the small piece of wood will go that anchors the two part together.

After the small dowel is covered in glue, fit it into one of the holes you drilled and then lightly hammer it down into the hole. It should now look something like this>
Here you can see I put a small piece of wood in the drilled hole. It's like the size of a golf tee. This can be purchased at any hardware store.





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