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posted by [identity profile] alex-holden.livejournal.com at 07:29am on 06/02/2012
The board in the second photo looks easily repairable with wood glue and a couple of clamps.

I don't think the horizontal bar would be very strong at all if you simply glued it back together butt-joint style, and it sounds like it's a structurally important part of the table. You could do an almost invisible repair by cutting out the damaged section and jointing in a new piece of hardwood, then staining it to match. However if it's in a place that you can't see it easily, I would be inclined to repair it with a couple of thick steel straps across the break and several bolts through the straps.

[livejournal.com profile] johnrw does furniture repair for a living.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:50pm on 06/02/2012
Thanks - it seems like if I had the skills and the tools this might make a nice little project, but as I have neither it's probably not a good place to start.
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 06:27pm on 06/02/2012
I'm with Alex - johnrw is your man. Why not ask him what he'd charge to do it? (I can't recall where he lives - always that problem with fan friends...)
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:50pm on 06/02/2012
LJ says Cheshire - but I've looked around Cambridge and it turns out we're not short of furniture restorers around here. I'll get a couple of quotes tomorrow. (Maybe they could also stop the top being bent, and fill in the missing bits of inlay, and replace the snapped drawer knobs with sensitive replacements, and, um, there comes a point where it is cheaper to get a new antique table...)
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