Revisiting Joe's table repair

Re: Revisiting Joe's table repair

Joe in a Cleveland suburb

Thanks for the info.

I went with adding a couple extra wedges towards the edge of the round tenon. I mixed up fresh hot hide glue and added a few wraps of plane shavings to the tenon.

Seems solid, but I'm going to give the hide glue a couple days to dry/cure before I put any stress on it to see if it really is solid. If not, I'll take it apart and go with one of the more involved options.

Thank you.

Re: Revisiting Joe's table repair

Barry Irby

I was thinking about this. I hope your wedges apply pressure to the end grain in the sub top.

My thought was that on a tenon that short it would be difficult to have a center wedge apply much or any force to the sub top without splitting the spindle. Wedges closer to the edge would help solve that problem.

No doubt....

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

that is why the table I saw that was likely made by a Period cabinet maker who had made many and apprenticed for someone that had made many more installed 4 wedges near the edge of the large tenon.

It would have been informative to determine if the tenon was tapered. I suspect yes given that anyone of that day would have known about tapering the "eye" of hammers, axes, etc.