Spindle High Chair

[Thumbthumper]

Hi
Thanks for your post and given what you have done I thought you might be able to give me some advice.
I'm repairing a bow smokers chair and I'm up to re-gluing the leg frame. It has two side stretchers, two middle stretchers and obviously four legs (back ones are angled towards the back). Just wondering what is the most sensible order to glue it up.
Thanks
Ross

Hi Ross,

You really want to glue the legs up in sections.
With the chair above, I glued the back legs and the front legs separately. You could also glue the side sections first. When they were completely dry, I put the back and front sections together.
You would need to be an octopus to successfully put the whole leg arrangement together at once It's also easier to get everything to line up properly and the legs all sitting firmly on the ground.
Use the seat to make sure the legs are in the right position.

[Ross Lambert]

Hi Ross,

You really want to glue the legs up in sections.
With the chair above, I glued the back legs and the front legs separately. You could also glue the side sections first. When they were completely dry, I put the back and front sections together.
You would need to be an octopus to successfully put the whole leg arrangement together at once It's also easier to get everything to line up properly and the legs all sitting firmly on the ground.
Use the seat to make sure the legs are in the right position.

Thanks for the advice. The glue up went very smoothly even without an octopus. Here is idea from left field that I discovered whilst doing this job. I was doing this repair late evening and didn't want to disturb the neighbours with banging the joints apart so I used a small bottle jack and padded it between the seat and the stretchers (snugged up nice and close to the leg so as not to snap anything. With a bit of hot water on the glue it worked a treat, was faster than the mallet for joints that were still solid and seemed less brutal.
Thanks again
Ross