We have an old red cedar dresser that has had some bodgie repairs done that now need repairing/restoration.
The stile on one door has split at some stage and a repair made by nailing through the edge to pull things together. This was probably never going to work. The crack doesn't appear to have been glued and has reopened over the years.
I'm wondering what to do here. I could squeeze some glue into the crack and clamp it up and hope it will fit back together nicely, but I'm guessing there's now at least some dirt or wax or something in there that is going to prevent things closing up invisibly.
To disassemble and make sure the joint is clean will require unmaking the current repair. It looks like 6 nails have been used down the edge, 4 thinnish cut head nails (or maybe wire) and 2 larger flat head nails. I'm a bit concerned about pulling this apart without causing further catastrophic damage. At least the nails look to have been driven mostly straight in rather than skewing them.
Does anybody have any tips on how to approach pulling this apart to inflict the least amount of collateral damage?
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The stile on one door has split at some stage and a repair made by nailing through the edge to pull things together. This was probably never going to work. The crack doesn't appear to have been glued and has reopened over the years.
I'm wondering what to do here. I could squeeze some glue into the crack and clamp it up and hope it will fit back together nicely, but I'm guessing there's now at least some dirt or wax or something in there that is going to prevent things closing up invisibly.
To disassemble and make sure the joint is clean will require unmaking the current repair. It looks like 6 nails have been used down the edge, 4 thinnish cut head nails (or maybe wire) and 2 larger flat head nails. I'm a bit concerned about pulling this apart without causing further catastrophic damage. At least the nails look to have been driven mostly straight in rather than skewing them.
Does anybody have any tips on how to approach pulling this apart to inflict the least amount of collateral damage?
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Repairing a repair to old red cedar dresser
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