Thread: tilt top, pie crust table .....repair?

I have a number of bad habits but one of the more acceptable ones is that I find it difficult to say NO to people who have asked for help especially those who have already tried to help themselves and/or done favours for me over the years. The net result of this is that I have a number of projects underway and haven't been near my own work for months. I have an able assistant though and, especially for round turny bits, I have flick passed (Pat says hospital passed!) a number to wheelinround. The current list, which is one shorter as of this weekend, includes
hebridean spinning wheel (completely flicked to wheelin')
sitar restoration (tuning knobs hospitalled to wheelin')
3 legged stool
ericsson phone restoration
and a 3 legged, pie crust, tilt top table

A brief WIP of the table is illustrated below but the basic damage was one leg broken completely off and some damaged and missing pieces of the piecrust,

pic1 and 2, the leg broke off taking the sides of the dovetail with it, it must have been some party!

pic 3 and 4, typical pie crust damage

pic 5, I dowelled the leg back on which was a bit tricky as the repacement angle was't strictly radial to the pedestal. After glueing I used an oil filter clamp to hold it all together

pic6, 7 and 8, piecrust repairs. Depending on the damage, I either added some new timber and carved in-situ or made complete new sections and glued them on. The new sections were made by grinding a hand scraper to the section required and 'scraped' the blanks that had already cut to the right shape

pic 9, one of the piecrust repairs being stained and distressed. After getting the colour right I used Uncle Neil's walnut coloured traditional wax to darken recesses etc and, yesterday .....

pic 10, the table back on its feet ... literally!

fletty