Family Heirloom Repair

A friend of mine's grandson broke a old chair that had been in the family for a life time or more.  Her teenage grandson felt awful about what he did and tried to fine someone to repair the chair.  The break was in an odd location so I had to do considerable disassembly to do the repair.  After gluing and screwing the break, as well as clamping as best I could it seemed like it held pretty good (I tried unsuccessfully to break the glue joint).  My way of hiding the counter sunk screws holes was to melt a wax crayon (I could match coloring so well) and let it drip in the hole.  I am open to suggestion but this seem to work pretty well.  The next time I will let more wax drip, when the wax cooled it shrank leaving a bit of a divot.  The elderly lady was SO thrilled to get her repaired chair back.  

I always like to find out background information about things like this.  As it turns out it was manufactured by the "Luxury Furniture Company" of Grand Rapids MI and looks like the manufacture date was sometime in the mid 1950's.  Further research indicated there were a ton (something like 30 or so) furniture manufactures in that area, the belief was because of all the hardwoods available (cherry in particular) in that area.  

This was a fun project and it didn't take long to fix.  I was happy to share my developing skills and tools (clamps).  I forget who it was but someone told me on here that you can never have enough clamps.😁

    ----   Yolanda