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Fixing broken chairs with wood glue. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
There are 15 videos in this series:
Marking the joints and removing a chair's seat. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Removing the glue blocks from a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Removing the front of a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Disassemble the back of a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Clean a wood chair's joints before working with them. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Removing broken dowels from a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Replacing broken dowel rods on a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Reassembling a wood chair's back with glue. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Disassembling the front of a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Cleaning joints on the front of a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Replacing dowels in the front of chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Reassembling the front of a chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Put front and back of a wood chair together again. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Reattaching the glue blocks to a wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Putting the finishing touches on a glued wood chair. Learn how to glue a wood chair for furniture repair in this free video.
Furniture serves many important, essential functions for people the world over. In the last few thousand years, chairs, beds, desks, and tables have provided places to sit, eat, talk, work, gather, or sleep. Many people will spend more than a third of their lives in, at, or on furniture. It comes as no surprise, then, that humans have a unique relationship with this group of items they spend so much time around. In some ways, furniture has become a reflection of personality. When choosing furniture for their homes or offices, people are known to concentrate on design, giving it equal or greater weight than function and stability. Many people pass furniture items down from one generation to the next, keeping the item as a family heirloom.
One way to repair a broken chair is to glue it back together. I know what you're thinking. Glue? Sounds pretty ineffective and cheap. In this free video series, a furniture manufacturer will teach you how to take apart and put together a chair with glue. You'll learn how to remove the seat of a chair, remove glue blocks, clean joints, replace dowels, and ultimately attach new glue blocks to the chair. Once your chair is disassembled, fixed, and reassembled, you'll be looking at a chair that's in brand new condition!
Curt Martin Curtis W. Martin is a third-generation antiques restorer. He began working in his father's furniture repair business when he was 10 years old, and hasn't been able to get the sawdust out of his veins since. Curt graduated from North Carolina State University's industrial engineering program with a Bachelor of Science in Furniture Manufacture and Management. He has owned and operated Martin Woodworking since 1998.dkdk
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