Bad Furniture Repair and How to Fix It - Woodworking Restoration

Please don’t repair a piece of furniture without knowing how to fix it properly. This bad furniture repair took more time to fix that it would have the first time. See how to undo this bad furniture repair and learn how to fix it the right way. If you don’t, you could permanently ruin the furniture so it can’t be repaired and the parts would have to be replaced.

Welcome to the workshop of Wooden It Be Nice, where we repair furniture. We’re sharing the trade secrets of how we work to help build a community about furniture repairs. This is a disappearing skill and it can help build local businesses that can’t be served any other way than by local experts.

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Watch Scott take apart this bad furniture repair - a chair with a broken chair leg that was poorly repaired. The chair leg was held in place with some construction adhesive and brad nails. It might have looked like it was strong enough, but chairs get pushing use, and this didn’t stand up. Because chairs have a lot of shifting wight on them, they’re stressed and can sometimes fail. This bad repair was done by someone who didn’t take the time to learn how to do it the right way (i.e., look it up on YouTube and find someone who can show you how to fix it).

The first step is to gently take apart the furniture parts. This wasn’t easy given how it was put together, but the best tool to help take furniture apart is the spreader clamp. These gently put pressure on the parts to release the joints. Here’s a link if you’re looking to buy some - https://amzn.to/3bFv0Pz

The next step is to clean all the old glue off the parts because we need bare wood for wood glue to work properly. Once the parts are cleaned up, it’s a matter of test fitting the parts to ensure there’s a good fit before applying the glue and clamps. In this repair, there were some wood fibres that needed to be aligned to get the best possible fit. When choosing a glue, you need the right glue for the job. Scott uses 6 different glues (see video link above for more detail) in the workshop and for this project, he chose wood glue and epoxy.

Once the piece is put back together, you may have holes or cracks that need to be filled and stained. Wax sticks and stain markers are easy to use as long as you match them appropriately. See the techniques Scott uses to make all this happen.

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This video is hosted by Scott Bennett, Owner of Wooden It Be Nice - Furniture Repair in Brooklin, Ontario, Canada. https://WoodenItBeNice.ca

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