How to Replace Dowels in Front of a Chair by Expert Village

Now again with these old chairs it's the same problem we had in the back of the chair, we broke another dowel and we're going to go over here to our vice so that we have a little safety for our hands, we don't want to drill a hole through our finger so... Read More »

How to Replace a Chair's Broken Dowel Rods by Expert Village

Ok, so here we are with that broken down cleaned out. Both dowels are drilled them out, we worked our way up from the size small diameter, up to the big diameter. We are going to put the dowel back in the hole it came out of with a new fresh dowel. This... Read More »

Drilling Holes to Repair Wood Furniture by Expert Village

This is Charles McMahon for Expert Village. Now we are going to drill out the holes that we need to have to put the new spindles in. Now I want to use a regular drill bit and we don’t have anything above 3/8 of an inch and the dowel is 7/16’s... Read More »

Preparing the Spindle Holes to Repair a Wood Chair by Expert Village

Okay, this is Charles McMahon for Expert Village continuing on our project of repairing broken chairs. You can see on this one that this spindle has broken off and we are going to replace this with a dowel but first thing we have to do is drill out a new... Read More »

How to Assemble a Chair's Back with Glue by Expert Village

Ok, so now we have our chair back together again, we have repaired all of our broken dowels, cleaned all of our joints, we have applied glue in the hole on all the dowel parts. We have put everything back together gently by hand and tapped it together... Read More »