Sensational How To Repair An Antique Rocking Chair

The most widely recognized type of Shaker chair would be a slat-back side chair or the famous Shaker rocking chair.

How to repair an antique rocking chair. A vintage mid-century chair is always a great find. Shaker chairs are named after a Protestant sect called the Shakers also known as the United Society of Believers in Christs Second Appearing. Set chair leg tenon into mortise align and clamp.

Scott shows how to disassemble a wobbly chair and the techniques to make it easy. Some joints are just too damaged to allow for a tight glue joint especially when repairing areas that have broken several times. Remove any old glue from the arm and then apply a wood glue such as epoxy to the joins.

Clean out the split using a wire brush. Once I trim it up I get all of the excess up and go over it with a glue gun. This chair may have the following characteristics many of which where used in different types of American rocking chairs crafted.

I take the hot glue gun and glue on the trim. When the glue is solid replace the arm back on the chair and refinish. Unfortunately the affordable ones are usually in bad condition and they get passed up by many buyers because its intimidating to figure out where or how to fix them.

Remove all the debris grit splinters or even. Then fill the mortise about halfway with epoxy. After hauling it all out of the basement and looking it over I could see that there was substantial.

Access the springs by turning the chair upside down to expose the rectangular or square frame. Chair springs are not what you might think. Slide the putty knife inside the split to clean it out and.