Alrighty, I got the chair done. (Or as done as it's gonna get.) I've got a lot of pics, so I'll keep the words quick.
When we last left the story, I had glued up the broken arm. That worked out well, but I noticed the rest of the chair was a bit loose. The corner blocks were all loose enough to wiggle. They had been glued and nailed, but the glue had given up long ago. I pried each block loose enough to get some glue worked into the joint. Here's one of them just after I started on it:
And here we are after getting three of the four corners glued and clamped:
Next up was a bit of touch-up. There were a number of chipped and scuffed spots. Here's an example:
A little TransTint Brown Mahogany, some DNA, and an artist's brush handled things just fine:
I wasn't going for perfection. You can see the original stain job was less than perfect. Here's the bottom of the back splat. I left it as-is:
in the end, the dye did a pretty good job, especially after a bit of shellac was padded over it:
The braid trim on the upholstered seat was also coming loose. This corner had been pinned:
And the whole front edge was loose:
I was planning to sew the braid back onto the seat, but after looking at it a bit, I realized it was originally attached with heat-fusible tape...like an iron-on patch. I figured glue was good enough for the original, glue would be fine for the repair. I use Shoo Goo to stick everything in place. I didn't take any detailed pics of the finished results, but it worked great.
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