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Friday, March 27, 2009

Patching a Broken Foot

Here are some photos of a table I am working on now. The first thing I had to do was to repair the broken foot. This was done by patching in new wood (cherry) on either side of the break. This gives the break more strenth which is good since the foot gets all of the weight!

The Break in the leg

Initial gluing of the breakPathes dry fit into place before trimming
Gluing the patches in place

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