Manual repair of deformed cracked tables, repair completed | Furniture Restoration

Amazing RESTORATION

[ronledrew]

All I can say is; you did a really good job of hiding a terrible repair.

[christopherfriedberg]

Wait ! You needed to pull the table together BEFORE adding the bowtie. Now the surface is wider on one end ! The dowels do nothing.

[jacilynns]

Uhhhh. This should have been split, properly recut and glued.

[stevendavis]

You did a nice job of hiding the problem temporarily and you'll get to do it again next year.

[fryncyaryorvjink]

If a 6 foot table is splitting in half, what is a bowtie that's only half an inch thick in the middle gonna do? I would just cut the cracked section out and add a middle section back in

[papichulo]

Despite what the comments say, this was a great fix imo and there are about a million ways to fix something, this guy clearly knows what he was doing plus the color matching was perfect. Can't even tell that the table was cracked in half

[thingsinmyhead]

I don't think I've ever seen a better example of "its all in the finish" in my life. I think the repair job was a bad one, first using a bowtie that does nothing in this case because it's so thin & badly placed, & then wedging the Crack apart even further. It's basically being held by sawdust & superglue. Great finish though...

[keithlea]

My grandfather showed me how to fix tablets that crack. Bow ties work for this type of fix. Bye not clamping the wood you're not putting pressure on the stressed area that caused the problem in the first place. But the proper way is to cut out a board with with the crack in the center of the board. Glue in a new board clamp and refinish. Fixed many since the 70s. And the only tables that haven't came back too haunt me years later we the tables i cut out the crack and effected area . In a nut shell you have to remove the stress that caused the crack . Or it will come back in years or decades.

[PNH]

Your eye for colour matching the new timber is exceptional

[vijayakumarm]

Excellent idea and the execution as well. Thank you for sharing.

[patrickfellers]

You NEED to clamp the split in the table together before applying the bow tie connection. It would save a lot of time and maintain the original look of the table without all that extra work. Glue, clamp, level out both sides, bow tie, saw dust fill in, sand, stain, and seal. Done. All the extra work is unnecessary.

[troubledspirit]

Good job. Its funny reading the comments of people who have probably never done any wood working or repair in their lives but know everything about it

[murphymmc]

I suspect CA glue, while being very expedient, does not have the flexibility needed to bond wood. It get very hard, therefore very brittle, it will fail as assuredly as those honey consistency polyurethane glues. I used that on some furniture repair before I understood the properties of the stuff. Every joint failed in two years. Took every joint apart, cleaned that crap off, used a type II modern wood glue, probably Titebond, that was ten years ago, still stable and holding. I applaud your color matching skills, the finished product looks good. I think you'll be redoing it in a couple of years.

[HighTechnology]

Love the strict safety code. No hard hats, no heavy work gloves, no eye protection no steel tipped work boots. They probably have a iron clad work disability policy. Yep when a worker gets a arm cut off they give him a cup to beg for money.

[truckinwoodworx]

Incredible color match job! The repair was a little off but it works

[bartonbank]

Buy yourself a plane, much better than a chisel to take the excess wood down to flush

[raysanders]

I am curious as to why you did not clamp that back together?

[apm]

Was the table struck by lightning ! Overall, a great repair. But you should have clamped the table back to square. Before you started.

[ericjones]

Now you have a tabletop that is not square. You should have glued and pipe clamped the crack first then add the bowtie.

[pweeloco]

Good attempt but internal cracks will keep going