This gorgeous, and very old Eastlake style arm chair suffered an unfortunate accident when it came loose of it's strappings and fell off of a truck. It experienced a 'slip and slide'. Slip off the truck and Slide on the road. The chair obviously needed some hospital time so it came to us for care. After doing a thorough evaluation and consultation with the chair's owner, a plan of action was decided upon. One option was to completely restore it to it's original condition. This would have required extensive repairs to the entire back section as well as the legs and arms. This would have been a big job and pretty pricy. So it was the second option that we are going to complete.
Since the back is so badly broken, both aesthetically and structurally, we removed the back all the way down to the lower rail which was still strong. The next step was to repair the broken areas just behind the arms where the wood had been broken off by the pavement. We were able to re-pupose wood from the top rail of the chair (which we removed), to fill in these broken areas. Once the epoxy glue on that repair was set and dry, the wood could be shaped to match the surrounding area. You can see this repair in the photo below.
We also needed to replace the wood on one of the legs, which had been completely destroyed by the fall. To repair this area, we had to use a new piece of walnut, rather than a re-purposed piece, as it was quite a big chunk that was missing. For the leg repair, we again epoxied on the new wood, and clamped it into place. Once it is set and dried we will shape the piece of wood to match the other back leg. You can see this repair in the picture below.
We still have a lot of work to do on this chair. Hopefully when it is done it will look just as beautiful as it did originally. Although now it will have a new adventure attached to it's history. The time it went for a slip and slide and ended up which a whole new look.
This gorgeous, and very old Eastlake style arm chair suffered an unfortunate accident when it came loose of it's strappings and fell off of a truck. It experienced a 'slip and slide'. Slip off the truck and Slide on the road. The chair obviously needed some hospital time so it came to us for care. After doing a thorough evaluation and consultation with the chair's owner, a plan of action was decided upon. One option was to completely restore it to it's original condition. This would have required extensive repairs to the entire back section as well as the legs and arms. This would have been a big job and pretty pricy. So it was the second option that we are going to complete. 
Since the back is so badly broken, both aesthetically and structurally, we removed the back all the way down to the lower rail which was still strong. The next step was to repair the broken areas just behind the arms where the wood had been broken off by the pavement. We were able to re-pupose wood from the top rail of the chair (which we removed), to fill in these broken areas. Once the epoxy glue on that repair was set and dry, the wood could be shaped to match the surrounding area. You can see this repair in the photo below.
We still have a lot of work to do on this chair. Hopefully when it is done it will look just as beautiful as it did originally. Although now it will have a new adventure attached to it's history. The time it went for a slip and slide and ended up which a whole new look.
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