Oak Rocking Chair
This solid white oak rocker needed its joints to be completely reglued and its split seat to be put back together again (…huh, at my age that also describes how I feel when I wake up some mornings).
Luckily for me my joints are not as full of nails as this chair was. People who own furniture with loose joints mistakenly think sinking a nail or driving a screw into a joint will fix their problem, but it will not. For a week or maybe even a month the chair or table leg will appear “FIXED” but in the war of wood vs. metal, over time metal movement will always win out. In other words, the stress on a wood joint that caused a glue joint to fail continues to act on the joint with the nail or screw in it. The unglued joint flexes back and forth every time it receives that stress. That metal then wears a bigger and bigger hole in the two wood pieces it was originally tightly connecting, ultimately failing to keep the joint closed.
The only real fix is to disassemble the joint, clean out the old glue, reglue with an appropriate glue and then reassemble the joint with sufficient clamps. That’s what I did after extracting all the nails. Also, if you look carefully in the “Before” picture with all the disassembled pieces you’ll notice the new oak stretcher I had to fabricate to replace the one that was missing.
This is not a huge chair in size but it has a comfortable rock and fits in that category of a sturdy occasional chair. It was finished in a dark brown gel stain to approximate a Mission Oak look and has three coats of General Finishes Arm-R-Seal urethane topcoat.
This is a very nice vintage hardwood oak rocking chair, at least 60 years old, at a very fair price – please consider whether you would like to have it for your own.
Dimensions: H 33 ½ " x W 17 ½” x L 28 ½”, Seat Height 14 ½“ H
$85. Cash, Venmo, PayPal accepted. Contact me about availability of free local curbside delivery.
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This solid white oak rocker needed its joints to be completely reglued and its split seat to be put back together again (…huh, at my age that also describes how I feel when I wake up some mornings).
Luckily for me my joints are not as full of nails as this chair was. People who own furniture with loose joints mistakenly think sinking a nail or driving a screw into a joint will fix their problem, but it will not. For a week or maybe even a month the chair or table leg will appear “FIXED” but in the war of wood vs. metal, over time metal movement will always win out. In other words, the stress on a wood joint that caused a glue joint to fail continues to act on the joint with the nail or screw in it. The unglued joint flexes back and forth every time it receives that stress. That metal then wears a bigger and bigger hole in the two wood pieces it was originally tightly connecting, ultimately failing to keep the joint closed.
The only real fix is to disassemble the joint, clean out the old glue, reglue with an appropriate glue and then reassemble the joint with sufficient clamps. That’s what I did after extracting all the nails. Also, if you look carefully in the “Before” picture with all the disassembled pieces you’ll notice the new oak stretcher I had to fabricate to replace the one that was missing.
This is not a huge chair in size but it has a comfortable rock and fits in that category of a sturdy occasional chair. It was finished in a dark brown gel stain to approximate a Mission Oak look and has three coats of General Finishes Arm-R-Seal urethane topcoat.
This is a very nice vintage hardwood oak rocking chair, at least 60 years old, at a very fair price – please consider whether you would like to have it for your own.
Dimensions: H 33 ½ " x W 17 ½” x L 28 ½”, Seat Height 14 ½“ H
$85. Cash, Venmo, PayPal accepted. Contact me about availability of free local curbside delivery.
#rockingchair #takomaparkmd #vintagefurniture #Generalfinishes #CommunityForklift #furniturerestoration #relovedfurniture #furniturerehab #furnitureflip #furnituremakeover #redotheold #makeitnewagain #furniturefacelift #homedecor #furnituremaker #diy #furnituredesign #beforeandafter
This solid white oak rocker needed its joints to be completely reglued and its split seat to be put back together again (…huh, at my age that also describes how I feel when I wake up some mornings).
Luckily for me my joints are not as full of nails as this chair was. People who own furniture with loose joints mistakenly think sinking a nail or driving a screw into a joint will fix their problem, but it will not. For a week or maybe even a month the chair or table leg will appear “FIXED” but in the war of wood vs. metal, over time metal movement will always win out. In other words, the stress on a wood joint that caused a glue joint to fail continues to act on the joint with the nail or screw in it. The unglued joint flexes back and forth every time it receives that stress. That metal then wears a bigger and bigger hole in the two wood pieces it was originally tightly connecting, ultimately failing to keep the joint closed.
The only real fix is to disassemble the joint, clean out the old glue, reglue with an appropriate glue and then reassemble the joint with sufficient clamps. That’s what I did after extracting all the nails. Also, if you look carefully in the “Before” picture with all the disassembled pieces you’ll notice the new oak stretcher I had to fabricate to replace the one that was missing.
This is not a huge chair in size but it has a comfortable rock and fits in that category of a sturdy occasional chair. It was finished in a dark brown gel stain to approximate a Mission Oak look and has three coats of General Finishes Arm-R-Seal urethane topcoat.
This is a very nice vintage hardwood oak rocking chair, at least 60 years old, at a very fair price – please consider whether you would like to have it for your own.
Dimensions: H 33 ½ " x W 17 ½” x L 28 ½”, Seat Height 14 ½“ H
$85. Cash, Venmo, PayPal accepted. Contact me about availability of free local curbside delivery.
#rockingchair #takomaparkmd #vintagefurniture #Generalfinishes #CommunityForklift #furniturerestoration #relovedfurniture #furniturerehab #furnitureflip #furnituremakeover #redotheold #makeitnewagain #furniturefacelift #homedecor #furnituremaker #diy #furnituredesign #beforeandafter