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 Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: Harden Rocker Restoration |
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From beater (price was right) to half decent (I think); I hate having to add new wood and it didn't turn out great here but worth a try, still need to get a seat made as the one shown is from another chair but the evergreen colour is good and is what I'll try to do, final finish is 'fumed' aniline dye + dark brown tint shellac + dark brown/black wax
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! Nice job. Its fun to bring these back to life, and your finish looks great! Congrats!  |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, I still can't decide if I leave the new wood repair or try again. The grain flake didn't really pop as a brighter colour here and I'm thinking maybe I used a piece of red oak instead of white oak by mistake. The grain pores aren't as tight as I thought or wanted either. I probably should have given it finish before gluing it....
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:49 am Post subject: |
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Hey, I had only seen this one time and forgot to write back - great work! Excellent chair and you did a great job on the finish. I like to see other pieces besides the ones I work on brought back from the dead!
Did you do the cushion? My wife usually sews the leather on cushions for me but we are trying to go top notch on the rocker I am working on right now and do the welt cord all around the edge with a drop/bullnose front on the cusion - the problem is that her sewing machine can only sew three layers of leather on a good day...
So, hm, the issue with the replaced wood. I am guessing you stewed over what to do with that damage for a while. Given what you had to work with you did a great job. But to be totally frank with you, I would do a total replacement on that piece. This may seem a bit nontraditional but to avoid messing with the through tenons I would cut the board out right at the post, leave the through tenons in the legs, and dowel the new stretcher in place (not sure what else you will have to take apart to pull the front post apart enough to put in the piece though). Once you get the piece cut out, you could bring it to a shop and find a piece of quarter sawn WHITE oak that has a similar grain pattern. If you can't get the color to match because the grain on the new wood isn't filled with black "dirt" try a super dilute fumed oak aniline dye before you color it...
Anyway, excellent chair! Post updates if you attempt to replace the front piece or fix it. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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Actually the replaced wood section doesn't bother me. True, I would have done Steve06's suggestion and replaced the entire board at the time, but now that it is done, I would not bother to take it apart again. It's kind of like a table top, where the jointing of two pieces to get a larger span overall. I guess it just doesn't feel glaring enough to justify more work to change it further.
Although personally I'm not crazy about the leather color. Maybe it's just the photo, but it looks more bluish than green. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| ...I'm thinking maybe I used a piece of red oak instead of white oak by mistake... |
Hm, after Jeremy's comment I looked at it again and I am not sure if you did accidentally use red oak or not but I have seen white oak pieces with the horizontal lines you have in that piece. I am not sure how the growth form or the tree or the milling process changes but the different, almost wavy grain pattern with the lines you have there is not all that common. Maybe just replacing that piece with another piece and not taking out the whole thing would be ok. It's just a real bummer it is the front stretcher. If it was any of the others it wouldn't matter - it also wouldn't matter if it was a simple generic rocker or something but it is an absolutely fantastic chair!
Actually maybe a more important question is if you are going to keep it or sell it?? Big difference if you always have to look at it and wonder how it would look with a different piece of wood vs dropping the price by a few bucks and never seeing it again. |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Selling it is an option. Always looking to upgrade etc. You guys haven't mentioned the other fix - slap some veneer over the whole piece. The fronts of the legs are veneered to hide the glue joint in the legs, so why not for the stretcher as well? This would be much easier than a whole new piece and/or a re-do of just the replaced piece. For now I'll leave it and go veneer hunting when I get the chance.
The cushion is from an old office chair I bought at a garage sale for 3 bucks and re-sold a couple weeks ago at another garage sale for 50 bucks, so that money goes into the new cushion for this chair. The cushion was actually about an inch short to fit properly so its just in the pic as a demo. I bought the rocker for about 150 so minus the other chair profit, say 100. Given the price I don't feel too bad about the repair.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Stonecat wrote: |
| You guys haven't mentioned the other fix - slap some veneer over the whole piece. The fronts of the legs are veneered to hide the glue joint in the legs, so why not for the stretcher as well? This would be much easier than a whole new piece and/or a re-do of just the replaced piece. For now I'll leave it and go veneer hunting when I get the chance. |
I had thought of the option to veneer the whole front, but felt that it would be a shame to cover up the existing solid wood. The two pieces are actually nice QSWO stock, they just stand apart from each other being different stock sections is all. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:47 am Post subject: PUTTY |
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| WHAT KIND OF PUTTY DID YOU USE??? |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject: pictures |
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Hello
I apoligize for the all caps posting and ment no disrespect to the forum no was I yelling at anyone I hope everyone on the poste will accept my apoligy.Thak you for bringing that to my attention.
I am still trying to load pics from photobucket have regeristered and still no luck as u can see there is a link but no pics any suggestions.
Thank you wayne |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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Wayne,
With each picture there are a few lines of code (should be under or beside the picture depending on what view you are in). Copy and paste the one that has these on each end:
[img] and [/img]
...and please start a new thread for a new message about a new piece, just to keep things organized...thanks
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