A friend asked me to look at a broken table leg to see if it could be salvaged. This is a turned leg, with the top 6 inches or so left square (appx 2" on a side). Apparently, the square portion of the leg, where it bolts to the table, suffered some sort of a failure, and the top 4" was cut off. So I'm thinking of the best way to attach a new 2" square by 4" long piece to what's left of the top of the leg. A good glue will be required, but I'm also thinking about a large dowel rod running through the new piece, and well into the leg. Your thoughts? O.
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Jul 04, 2004
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O wrote:>A friend asked me to look at a broken table leg to see if it could be
The dowel is a good idea. I'd go with regular 'ol aliphatic resin glue.Tom Work at your leisure!
The dowel will probably do the job structurally but unless the table is painted, short of turning a new one, I think making the repair look decent will be the real ball buster of the job.
If it were my repair job to do I'd just make a new leg.
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