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That’s the way to take it on complete disassembly. What makes this project even tougher that someone else doing a short cut restoration .

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Jim, I’d love to know who did the patch work and when!

L/W

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin

I felt that way in past about some projects that customers have brought things for me to fix, most won’t admit to doing it themself :)

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Jim, Sometimes undoing someone else’s mess is a whole lot harder than starting from scratch!

The builder of the chair was a good carver but must not have had a square. Some things were done really well and other things (that were original to the chair) were done poorly. All the repair work that had been done was pretty horrendous.

L/W

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin

Looking at the photos and your description it certainly seemed like someone missed the mark on an earlier attempt to fix your chair, but you’ve done a great job of bringing it back to life.

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