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Bruce Hamilton writes:

We work in a small space. During glue-ups there are
often clamp tails sticking out in many directions making
a hazard when walking around the repair area.  An old
carpenter friend of mine once showed me how he was
taught to help reduce the possibility of banging your
shins on one of these clamps trees. He would drape a
bright colored shirt over the object. We began calling
it "red shirting" and we saved our worn out red shirts
for this purpose.

The front arm post on the old Windsor chair was
snapped cleanly at the narrowest section of the turning.
Both the top and the bottom of the joints were tightly
wedged. Further more, the two pieces would not line
up as the arm was sprung out ward. We made a
clamping jig that allowed for the crocked jointing of
the two halves. Then we applied masking tape to lay
the cut for a floating double scarf joint. Holes were
drilled at the tips of each "V" and then the waste
material was cut out with a coping saw. A pattern was
drawn for the plug with a pencil and paper. The plug
was cut on the band saw and epoxies in place.
Pearing, sanding, filling gaps if necessary and finally
coloring and finishing are the next steps.










Bruce Hamilton follows up:

Groopsters,

Here is the completed Windsor post repair in the first
picture. The second picture shows how much
misalignment there was in the arm. the job took about
7 hours. This does not include any administrative time
of 1 hour.

John,

we use a large Japanese in the shop and especially for
on sight repairs. Do they make smaller saws that
would have helped with the cutting and were would
I look for these, Woodcraft?

Bruce







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