As I was putting the finishing touches on the bedroom furniture, I wanted to make sure I documented how the repairs looked after I was done.
Here are the cracks on the edge of the top and base of the night stand. These were repaired by putting a bead of CA glue in the crack and sanding over it to fill the gap with glue and sanding dust.
The smaller cracks did pretty well, but the largest one would have done better with a different type of repair.
For that one, I should have widened the crack with a fine tooth saw and filled the kerf with a sliver of veneer. The extra veneer would have been pared away with a chisel and sanded flush.
Overall, these repairs worked pretty well, but I can still notice them.
The veneer patch on the front of the dresser turned out great. The grain pattern and tone matches the original closely.
This repair turned out as close to original condition as I could make it.
Repairing old furniture can be tricky. I haven’t looked at it in a long time, but my dad had a copy of this book when he was restoring a lot of antique furniture. If I remember correctly, it provided several techniques for structural and finish repairs. I may have to pick up a copy for myself.
