How to repair cracks in a chair seat.
Repair split wooden chair seat.
A split seat on a wooden chair often sends it to the junk heap but this solution may save one at your house.
The seat must be completely removed for doweling.
Old glue that remains on the frame can be chiseled off.
If nails were used previously in the repair of the split chair seat pull them out with the help of angled pliers.
Split chair seats can be repaired with a series of 1 8 inch dowels wooden pegs along the break and reinforced with metal mending plates.
If you split the rear legs or your seat is shield shaped try using a band clamp around the seat to close the split.
Furniture makers seldom fashion chair seats from a single piece of wood.
Step 3 joining the split.
The fix begins by forcing wood glue into the crack and clamping the seat back together.
Then add some pressure across the grain anywhere you can get a clamp to hold.
While this will put the chair back together it may happen again.
Instead they glue planks together edge to edge to form a single plank wide enough.