I picked up a very early Carl Hansen & son wishbone chair today for 5$. it needs a bit of TLC, but it will get the work it needs to be nice again.
Okay today is rummage sale day in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. I went out looking for old stereo equipment and I saw a chair sitting in a drive way. I did a double take. I pulled over to the curb (squealing to a stop). I jump out of the car and walked up to the elder lady sitting on a chair. I asked how much for the beautiful chair. She said $50, we just have too much furniture. I said Well I am just going to have to take it.
Every nice Herman Miller? Plycraft? but there is a problem with a bracket on the back, any suggestion on how to get this fixed?
nice chair.
that bracket, the way it's cracking the ply is a tough call on how to fix.
I think I would remove it, and carefully pry open the cracks to about a 16th of an inch with jewelers screwdrivers.
re-setting them like a broken bone may be in order, but could be difficult on that bottom break.
then I would pump in a 2:1 wood glue water mix with a syringe(the plastic curved tip ones you get at the dentist work great for this).
once thats pumped in, remove the screwdrivers, and then clamp it for 3-4 days in-between some solid chunks of hardwood(I have 2"x3" thick chunks of white oak in various lengths I use for clamping purposes)
I have used this technique before to fix split doors by the hinge on a teak cadovius unit (the hinge is hidden in the edge of the doors, open 'em to hard, and the screws cause the particle board to split). after my clamps were off, I drilled the hinge screw holes to 1/4 diameter, and glued in some dowels. then drilled pilot holes, re-attached the hinges, and the cabinets were as good as new.
once the glue has dried a few days, and the clamps are off, hopefully the tension in that large crack will not force it open again.
if it hasn't, then I would cut 4 pieces of 1/8th thick, 1.5"wide, 2" long steel bar stock.
drill necessary holes for the bolts, clean up all burrs, and paint black, or to match the wood.
then, re-assemble using those bars as washers on both sides of the wood, tightening it enough to act as a permanent clamp for those breaks.
good re-enforcement to prevent the bolts from further damaging the ply.
if necessary for the larger break, cut the bar stock to 3 inches, and drill 3 holes in each, adding two smaller bolts (3/16ths should do) to additionally re-enforce it.
I would also consider DIY replacing that bracket entirely as it looks to have had some wear. seems a bit bent out of shape
no, its not original, but being broken as it is, that already reduced whatever value it may have had.
it may look a little funny having those metal rectangles showing at the back, but it's the only thing I can think of to make that chair strong enough for sitting in, short of replacing the two pieces of bent ply.
hopefully someone else will chime in with a better solution.
might I suggest a thread in "/general off topic/non audio DIY" for better assistance on that repair.
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=170
