Antique table leg

[sam upton]

Can anyone here refer me to somebody who could duplicate an antique table leg. I can post a picture if necessary. I broke it moving from Houston to Oklahoma. I also broke my wife's heart.http://www.sawmillcreek.org/images/icons/icon9.png
Thanks, Sam

[Jamie Buxton]

Pics would help. Somebody might feel competent to duplicate one kind of leg, but not another.

[sam upton]

Thanks, I will post some.

[Mel Fulks]

I would think in terms of repairing old one. Hope you saved every sliver,but if you didn't ,some patching will fix. Something
has to be pretty severely broken up to not merit repairing on something of quality.

[Kent A Bathurst]

Post the pic.

We have all spent a lot of time in the dog house - getting in is no problem, but we gotta move quick to get you back out.

[John McClanahan]

I would think in terms of repairing old one. Hope you saved every sliver,but if you didn't ,some patching will fix. Something
has to be pretty severely broken up to not merit repairing on something of quality.

This is my thought, too.


John

[sam upton]

313392313393313394313395Pics of damaged leg. Any help appreciated. The only thought I had was to insert a hardwood dowell & re-drill for the bolt.

[Kent A Bathurst]

Looks like some wood split - - glue and clamp everything. Then insert something - dowel, or chisel a slot for a piece of wood - glue it all up, drill and reassemble. YOu want to find a way to drill into long grain, not end grain - for a stressed joint like that, I'd be concerned about the end grain's holding ability long-term. Use a longer screw if that gets you into original wood.