Chipped edge repair question....

Re: Chipped edge repair question....

Keith Newton

For this sort of repair, I like to use a chisel to cut a flat surface to glue on a new sliver. This is usually a very wide V, then cut a matching angle on the new piece to be glued on. This can be well oversize for easier handling while making the fit, then bandsawn down closer to size to ease paring with a plane after the glue has dried.

Re: Chipped edge repair question....

David Weaver

i'm not furniture maven, but that's the kind of thing I'd fix with shellac stick if it's as small as a toothpick.

i'm sure there's a restorer's method that would really make it look better than that, but i'm tolerant of my own mistakes on furniture as long as I can learn from them.

Funny thing about woodworking is that people often tell you that you will make mistakes and repair them, but they don't tell you that even when you're comfortable woodworking, you'll still make mistakes and have to repair them or not even mistakes, careless handing - and the idea of repairing work isn't so much a matter of repairing, but learning to do it quickly so that it's actually part of building.

Success....

Barry Irby

I flattened the corner at about a 45 degree angle and glued on a matching strip and then flattened it on the face and bottom. Used a scrap form the same tree. It matches so well that no one will ever see it. I can pick it out if I sit in front of the chest and stare at it from close up, but standing four feet away, I can't see it.

Success. Thanks for the help.