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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

The long sides are held by bolts in a typical flat pack furniture joint. This is normally fine and strong enough, although ideally there should be a half moon washer/nut instead of just a regular hex nut.

However, the bolts are too long, bottoming out in the hole and forcing the side and leg apart instead of clamping them together.

Fixed with a long drill bit, making room for the tip of the bolt.

Must've come from the CBA furniture factory! :)

The corner of a table support. Square profile leg is glued to the short side with a mortise and tenon. The long side has a bolt through the leg that ends in a pocket with a hex nut barely visible. However, the bolt is already hitting the other side of the hole without even being fully inserted into the leg.
#DIY#Furniture#Repair
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Now the other side. Dry join, you can see where I dug the pins out that obviously couldn't hold a table leg, see elongated holes.

The other two holes below the mortise are from where someone tried to patch it with an angle bracket and screws. That didn't work either.

Ah well, clamped back together with some PU glue.

A mortise and tenon joint. It's roughly made, probably in a factory, there's torn wood on both parts. The tenon has two small holes, the top very elongated from where pins were unable to hold it against the leverage from the table leg. The leg has two rough holes where the pins were dug out. Two small holes below in a diagonal pattern show where a small angle bracket was screwed to. The inside of the mortar and the tip of the tenon have torn wood on them.
#Woodworking#Furniture#Repair
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Fixing a table that fell apart as I was moving it around 🙀

Real wood, nice turned legs but the worst joinery, not improved by dodgy attempts at patching it by a previous owner.

For some reason it wasn't glued, just pinned and I had to dig the pins out, doing further damage. What a waste.

Perhaps the factory was out of glue that day. Reminds me of an old DDR joke.

Two table legs are clamped with their adjoining piece in two long clamps, leaning on an old chair.
#DIY#Woodworking#Table
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My (not quite) boyfriend just stopped by while I'm on quarantine to drop off a pair of earrings he made for me! They match my longboard, and they're so dope—I absolutely love them!

He handed them to me in a tiny white takeout box with a little metal wire handle. I put them on, and then we both just stood there on my front porch blushing at each other like highschool kids (kids still blush these days, right?) for like 20 minutes.

God, he's so adorable 😍

Alice shows off one of their new earrings—a wide triangle, composed of rose gum and maple bands, hanging from their ear by an elaborate steel hook.
#Woodworking#Crafts#Jewelry
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wedge

In the news… French art critic/dealer, Bill Pallot, had master ébéniste (cabinet/furniture maker), Bruno Desnoues, and perhaps others, make fake renaissance furniture for years, selling the pieces to wealthy families, Chateau Versailles, and Middle East royalty for accumulated millions before experts caught on.

All I can say is that Desnoues must be a damn good furniture maker.

lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2

Le Monde · The fake Marie Antoinette chair scam that fooled the Château de Versailles and a Qatari princeBy Pascale Robert-Diard
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clx

I built a cupboard for my moms mocca cup collection today. From click parquet wood parts, so there is a small groove to rest the saucers in and have them stand upright. My jigsaw is not the greatest but with some correction dremeling I got the parts to fit into one another. I mixed the Color from my paint pigments to match her other furniture. :) dimension is 1sq m. The cup is just my stand in.

Foto: Wood cupboard with 5 by 5 square fields to put cups in. One has a sample cup.
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wedge

I knew this would be a project, but it will be more of one than I thought, and the plane, currently, is probably not worth the 20€ I paid, but we’ll see how it shapes up.

It came packed in hay, which went into the composter.

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Mike Edwards

I have to pause for a couple of these. Here's a wooden-slab lamp with a shade using shoji rice-paper screen motifs, a really fine example of George Nakashima's work combining modern American and Japanese traditional design and craft

Wooden slab lamp and shade with shoji screen motifs
#woodworking#art#design
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