Shop dog won't glue a single chair

hey guys it's turner here at john's furniture repair again and i just thought i would do a little video on what we've been working on in the shop and uh then get into what our video will be about today so let's take a walk around and i'll show you a few projects okay so we did a little bit of work on a lot of work on this guy um this is a 90s classic but it's looking pretty good we went with the darker color on the chair seats and the table these chairs were all broken and shattered the backs were kind of destroyed so we did a total rebuild on these and a two-tone finish so looking pretty good um this table here we did a about six coats of lacquer and we did a steel wool dry buff so i really really love this finish i think the first time i saw this finish was in my dad's shop and he had a really pretty little side table and he had just finished buffing it and i came over and i was just kind of like oh my goodness that is so luxurious looking and it's smooth and just feels like a million dollars so we just finished this one here that one's ready to go out and this guy here was falling apart and broken lots of broken joints and dowels and it was a golden oak uh color so a lot lighter just a natural i say golden oak but what i mean is just the natural maple on the chairs so we did a complete rebuild on this guy stripped sanded and glued it back together did all the repairs and did a nice gaudy pecan stain on this one so i really like this color we did do a little bit of a tint with extra dark walnut in the mohawk toners so that one is done and ready to go back out um other stuff that i've been working on here we finished a bunch of stuff for a insurance company this guy just got another paint job um these tables here this table was finished in a black stain and so were these two coffee tables they all had water damage from a flood in the u-haul uh storage facility and these guys under here as well we did a complete refinish so they match the table like a black stain on there looks a little bit red in that picture so those actually go with a bunch of stuff here these big uh armoires and dressers they all have a little bit of water damage so we'll be working on those and uh some stuff that i'm excited to work on that's coming up and give you guys a little teaser here is this little music desk we are not refinishing it we're just doing a repair um there's some veneer that's uh popped here and the top needs a little buff and the door is not working properly so that's just gonna be a really nice little cleanup on that guy super adorable the other dresser that goes with the burled walnut piece that we did the vanity has come in so they're also actually going to bring in the high boy dresser so we'll do those two to complete the set this piece here is a sewing ladies sewing table so it opens up we had a new staple top made for this piece so that'll be fun to get going a couple of really exciting projects here that we're going to be working on this cabinet here um i had a really good customer wendy who actually has passed away and i did quite a bit of work for her and she was a young wonderful beautiful woman and her daughter wants us to continue and repair this piece because it meant a lot to her mom so i'm excited to do a really great job on this one for her just because it'll be a memory for her and it's quite a nice piece too so i'm excited to get going on that one and then back here i have a real uh job this guy is getting new glass we're not putting in this textured glass someone started stripping it and got fed up so it ended up here that actually happens quite a bit it needs a lot of work the base is kind of toast there's no back panel the inside needs help this will be a good cleanup so excited for that one as well other things that we're working on coming up there's a pretty huge job that has a rattan i'll show you kind of have it in the storage area here kind of excited for this one and i bought new tools to do this job so complete couch two chairs and a foot stool and actually little basket there that goes with them too and doing a complete strip down to the natural rattan so no shellac and we'll just do a clear locker over top to seal so that stuff is really hard to get stripper into and there's a ton of repairs on this stuff too that i'll show you too but like stripping into all these round areas with all this groovy stuff it's actually almost impossible on something like this so what i have ordered from princess otto which just came in this morning was a soda blaster and i am going to be giving that guy a whirl i've heard awesome stuff i've got two 50-pound bags of soda and a 40-pound soda blaster here so ah it's probably i'm gonna do some run-throughs and see if that's gonna be good for the piece and uh if that works then we will be soda blasting a ton of stuff so stay tuned for that job um another really amazing job came in really really really old rocker but you can see up there it's got hand woven cane and it's been sitting in a garage for i don't know how many years um but it belonged to a an aunt of a really good customer of mine and he really wants the chair to be back to good and uh we're excited to rebuild refinish and re-weave that guy so that's a really big job and he's really investing in that piece so i'm excited to get doing that uh we had a bunch of other stuff come in that we'll be working on so it's exciting to see what the future is gonna have this oak desk here really cool you can barely see it up there it needs a lot of work so stay tuned for all these exciting jobs um because we've got lots on the go um coming up pretty quick actually this guy here it's a hand carved chest and it was imported from china it's actually very very old and it's been sitting in tension clamps for four and a half months now uh so it was very very warped a lot of times when uh pieces come from a lot different climates and they come to our air controlled uh homes they start to shift and crack and move so this guy's just been sitting in our shop and clamps for a while and uh we'll be getting onto that guy here pretty quick a couple little child's chairs and tables with the kids names on them so that's kind of cool heirloom stuff that we'll be working on um and then these two chairs are very very old they're all hand carved and uh we're going to be doing an electric blue on these guys which is pretty exciting and these are actually real pieces of marble in here that pop out with a a little panel on the back so i'll be taking that out but i think they're just adorable and i know that not all the furniture that i do is is everybody's cup of tea but i enjoy the difference um in all my pieces and i can appreciate them for what they are and for the most part i just love that my customers love them so awesome today we are working on oak chairs so these guys were repaired by someone who probably shouldn't have repaired them so everything is really dirty uh corner blocks are caked with terrible glue and stuff so we've been going through these and uh i'll show you how we fix them all up so let's get on to these jobs and then on to all the other ones okay so every little piece of this uh chair was taken apart all the joints were cleaned and it was re-glued and we do need to use a two-part epoxy on these chairs because these have been worked on before and the joints are very loose they're not tight fitting anymore so i need a gap filling glue and whenever i need that i need to get into my epoxy uh old brown glue or high glue isn't great at filling gaps and neither is carpenter's glue so ah this is what i go to for repairs on chairs like this uh also the corner blocks are um nailed in originally and i just really prefer um a screwed in corner block and so we did a little bit of a modification there these aren't antique chairs um they're nice old courtesan chairs don't get me wrong but they're not anything too special so they just need to be functional strong and look a little bit better we are doing some uh repairs to nyx and dents around the chair nothing too serious we've got a couple pieces of putty going on with this one but basically just a total re-glue uh and get everything sturdy clean up the finish a bit probably give it a a wax over top or a polish and then reupholster the seats so the seats are really flat and hard just like i mean these chairs were always made that way it was just a board that was upholstered with leather and the customer would like me to add a little bit of foam just so the seats a little bit more comfortable to sit on so we're going to be doing a blue navy uh vinyl over top of a one-inch foam and it won't be too much of a profile still just because i don't want to go too plush on these things because it looks weird but um it'll be a lot more comfy than just sitting on a board so let's get one of these on the workbench and i'll show you how we get it apart and do our thing uh one of the major problems these chairs um have because they were worked on before is the corner blocks were never actually installed properly and uh there's quite a bit of messy glue and they're not even actually up against the chair frame anymore so those definitely need to be removed so i'm just going to use my pry bar here and come from the center and it's loose on one side so that's good enough this one i can probably get off before i get them off the whole way i'm just going to label them back left back right front right front left and i mean maybe someone put them on the wrong spot i'll double check the fit before i do reinstall them so it's just one stuck so you can see here all of the glue and cred and stuff that was put in here so we need to get that all off for it to be able to fit nicely back onto the frame because you want these fitting great these are a really structural part of the chair that need to be properly glued and held up nice and tightly against the frame because that keeps you know all of the side and twisting torsion and keeps the chair square so these are a really important part of a chair that should always be fixed properly so i'll just put these aside and this next thing that i want to do is get this back off okay so to get these off um i'm just gonna get a little bit of a tool underneath there and i'm just gonna carefully pop these off now i'm getting lucky with these sometimes these are glued in really uh well and you cannot get them out these ones look like they were just kind of popped in with very minimal glue so they're quite easy to just tap out of the way and save but sometimes um they're glued in there so well that i end up having to drill them out so it's nice that these were not when i glue them back in i usually just do a little dab of glue on one side just to keep them in place they don't need to be tight so the next person can get access here and then we'll just take these screws and then the back should be loose i usually put a little bit of uh carpenter's glue on here it looks like there was some at some point but not in the right place so right on here and then i'll just give this a bit of a tap from side to side and get that piece out there there are nails holding in these dowels and these ones um the other chair had one here but it doesn't look like they have one here so we'll need to get these out and this one out or else when i pull this dowel out it'll split this wood off for me so they're quite tough sometimes if you rock the chair back and forth the nails will pop up and you can get a a grip on them so i'm just going to do that a couple times with a clamp and then see if i can get them to pop a little bit so i can get my my pliers in there to get them out and i'm gonna pull this away slowly from that joint and then what i'm going to do is just pop it back quickly and hope that the nail kind of pops up with it not much movement there let me try again because otherwise we have to dig it out and do surface damage which um this one looks like just wants to come out they actually missed the dowel so that's kind of nice that one's good but this one i might have to dig out those those pieces so let's get these nails out the crude way okay so i'll need to dig right next to the nail head here with my pliers and i like these little guys because they can really get in there these are japanese pliers you can buy at lee valley i've gone through a few pairs so i'm just going to dig in right next to the nail head until i can get these around and then i'm going to use this as my price service and i'm just going to pop that guy up without snipping off the top that happens sometimes and you really have to hang on to something and get that guy out looks like it's broken off it may have not broken away this piece of wood here if i pulled on it but i'd rather take it out instead of risking that so i'll do the same thing here so just drive it in grab that nail head and again broken off so may have been able to pull that joint out without making too much of a mess there but that's good on that side and i do see some nails on the inside here let's turn this over and get this side again that one kind of missed the dowel we'll get these ones here great do you guys want to meet my yes i can my shop i know a couple of you've seen that wood the dog crate in the uh videos this is nessa and she comes and visits when my daughter's at school so she's helping me today fix the chair she's a golden doodle she's about two years old so she's been really great during covid i'm sure you guys have pets that have been really good for you too so she hangs out in the shop with me some days when we're not doing too many stinky things all right so we've got those out um now i just need to get these nails out on the inside of the bottom here okay so we got all the nails pulled did the last couple off camera and now i'm able to uh get my mallet and bump these guys apart so they're not going to take a lot yeah so a ton of glue just jammed in everywhere so much so that the joints aren't actually fitting together like take a look here we got major goopiness and that's not allowing that whole rail to sit flat against the back so that all needs to be cleaned up and inside here you can see in the joints it's just full of this uh pva glue of some sort in there so i'll take apart side to side yeah so that whole surface was glued you can see here the glue was kind of smeared all over this area so this was actually glued to the surface of that piece and when we pulled out the joint i wanted to pull all this with it so we'll just need to get this back in glue it back in and clean up those joints from all of the glue that is just everywhere awesome okay so you can see the corner block blue there too really not just big clumps everywhere so next up uh let's clean out the glue from the dowel joints uh 9 16 for the bigger and 7 16 for these guys just going to get rid of all the old blue [Music] okay so i'm going to deal with this little break here so it's just kind of been ripped out so i'm going to just move this out of the way and lose this fiber because i think that's not going to lay down again and i'm just going to use a white glue and i'm doing this before i drill out the joints because there'll be a little bit of white glue that squishes out after that i'll need to remove to get my epoxy to sit nicely uh white glue and epoxy do not play nice together they just actually turn into a ball together and nothing sticks to anything so i'll just make sure that's all the way around there not exactly sure where this one goes i think it probably goes right in there like that so i'll put that in there first get a bit more of the glue on the edge to fill this thing up it's almost empty and then i'm getting my mustard jar to fill up with glue because i am so tired of this bottle good get that in there so now i'm just going to press this back into place and i'm going to tap it in with a hammer awesome so that is good that's in there pretty tightly okay so as i'm going through all these joints after i drill them i'm scraping off the excess glue that's left on the surface here with my little scraper so that when i put this back together i can get my joints to sit right flat on top of this okay so i cleaned off this side here this dowel was not in good shape so i just cut a new 7 16 dowel and i'm just going to glue it in with white glue because this is a new joint that i made myself and it is [Music] nice and tight i've got my dowel here with the groove so the glue can squish out if it needs to and i left a little bit long just because i think this does too short but the other one looks the same way so the other side is much the same you can see this dowel has been cut off here it's only half there so i'm going to again cut this whole dowel off [Music] right there and then i'm going to use a heat gun to remove all this crud [Laughter] it's really important when you're re-gluing chairs that you only get glue [Music] in the dowel joint and not all the way around i mean some is going to squish out it happens to me all the time but when you're applying the glue you should not be deliberately applying glue all around this surface uh and the other problem is you need to you have proper pressure too so you can clamp things tightly while the glue is drying or else you end up with these gaps at your joints and the glue is all in there and it's just a mess takes quite a few clamps to glue a chair with an eighth brace and all that jazz so you gotta make sure you have enough to do the job or else you're gonna end up with a wonky looking chair okay so now that's cleaned off i'm going to step drill this dowel joint so i'm going to start with smaller than the hole that's what i mean when i say step joint or circle and i can feel when i go through that dowel and bottom out because there's a little bit of a space down there before the end of the hole now i'm going to go ahead and then i'll just get the edges with my 7 16 which is the actual size [Applause] here we go and you always take a look inside to see to make sure you went the right angle everything looks good so now i'll just need to make another dowel and put this in and then this piece will be ready to go back okay so i've got all the joints uh dealt with and the glue on all those pieces so now i can turn my attention to the corner blocks so first i'm going to get these nails out of here so i'm just going to pop these through using my anvil and then to get all this glue off i could do the same thing as uh heat gunning like i did everything else but i find what is usually pretty easy is to just take it over to the sander and get the glue off that way so good so now that's a nice surface for the uh glue to go back onto the chair frame so the last thing that i'm doing with these guys is adding a fastener instead of all the nails so what i'm going to do is just drill a pocket hole with the 3 8 spade drill bit and then drill it through so when you're drilling these uh corner blocks you want your screw to be sucking close and parallel right to the frame so you wouldn't want to screw it at this angle so that you're pushing it this way you actually want to push the chair or the corner block right up to that rail and sandwich it so it's parallel so make sure that you have your screw lined up so it's going to go straight into that side rail i'm not saying things very well but anyways i'm just going to get this started and then i'm going to change my angles and straight down so that when my screw screw goes in it's going to go straight down into that chair rail again and then i'll just drill these through good so when i put this back in the chair then i'll drill a little bit into the rail as well but that's uh how we're going to deal with these corner blocks so i'll do the other three and then we'll get ready to glue okay so we've got everything prepped and cleaned and drilled out and we're ready to glue so i'm just gonna mix up my two-part epoxy here and again we're using epoxy for these chairs because they've been worked on before and the joints are very loose and i need a gap filling glue and uh that's what this stuff works great at actually a lot of the stuff that i work on has been worked on before i don't work on really really old stuff i rarely get the awesome pieces in but when i do that's exciting so first we're going to get the back together so i'm just going to get this full of glue when you're getting glue on your joints make sure that you coat all the sides of the dowel joint don't just put it in there but don't get any on the surface as much as possible you will maybe have some squeeze out if you've got too much in there which happens to me which is fine as long as you have a good clamp you can just clean that up afterwards okay so i'm gonna grab my back pieces we got the curved one here with the slots good so i've got the back together you can lay it down and now we'll get these guys going so again i'm going to get quite a bit of glue in these very loose joints make sure it's everywhere so this rounded edge goes to the top of the chairs i'll just rock that back in got some pretty awesome squeeze out there filling that gap which is good that crack there and that will dry all hard and same thing with the other side [Music] and then pop everything up onto the frame great so i'm gonna carefully pick this up just wanna show you like it's still so wobbly like a good chair with good joints when you have it together with no glue shouldn't do this so it's just necessary that we use the epoxy here so that when it dries all those gaps and things are taken up with the glue so what i'm going to do now is get some a clamps on this before we put the whole back section up okay so there's a bit of glue squeezed out everywhere i'll show you see we've got the joints nice and tight and there's some squeeze out in places where we put a lot of epoxy which um is fine with me i want there to be epoxy surrounding these joints or else if you don't have something filling that gap in there and something hits the chair or it smacks on the ground there's room for that glue to break inside and for that joint to move and become loose again so it's really important that there's no space left around the dowel joint for a longevity of repair so that when things do impact the chair it's not going to snap and break with that movement so right now i'm gonna get the uh back on with some white glue okay so i'm gonna grab my carpenter's glue and i'm just going to sneak a little bit you don't really need a lot on this area because it's held in by the screws we're going to pop this in as centered as we can and then for the back i'll just put a little bit of glue in here in this groove on both sides so that both of the tenons have attachment there and as well i'm going to put a little bit of glue just a wee bit on these surfaces i'm gonna pop that upside down and seat it in place great so i'm going to now put a little tiny dab of glue in each of those and pop these guys back in so the last thing we need well not the last thing but the next thing that we're going to do is get the quarter blocks in here those very important corner blocks that everybody needs to pay attention to in the chairs [Music] good so nice and sturdy okay so we got all the corner blocks in i ended up making a new one here this one just looked like it had seen better days so just did that out of a two by fours so that can go down now um so now i'm just going to go around and catch some of this squeeze out that's happening everywhere the other reason i like epoxy for chairs is it gives you such a great open time i mean if you get the long slow harder hardener you can get fast epoxies too but i like this long slow one the slow hardener so i can work on getting joints really close together and clamping with different pressures and just making sure everything is working properly before the glue starts to set up on me and chairs are complicated they've got a lot of pieces and it's nice to have a little bit of extra time so now i'm just going to use a little bit of denatured alcohol and i'll just clean off those joints so i don't have a ton of glue to chip later on there's always a little bit that i missed somewhere i'm just going around and filling the nail holes that we pulled out with a mohawk fill stick that matches the color almost probably have to do a little touch up on it too so right down there you can see a nail hole so i'm just going to fill that up with wax knife i could use putty some of these are pretty big but this will work too and then i'll just take my scotch pad and buff that off i'm not putting the nails back in they're not necessary and got another one there so yeah i'll just go around and find those little nail holes and get some wax in them anything bigger than that i will use my timbermate putty which is really useful for working on finishes for repairs because you can use water to wipe away the excess instead of finishing or sanding the finish off so that's what i did on this chair um because there's a big putty spot here and then there's one here there was a big chip out so i can just actually wash this off with water after when it's dry which i can actually show you right now because i think it is dry so you just kind of wipe away the excess it's not so bad on this finish because it's kind of an easy one to touch up but if you're doing putty work on something that is a really specific finish that's really hard to replicate you don't want to be sanding off the finish and having a big blotchy area where you tried to match it so this is really helpful because i'm not removing any finish i'm just leaving putty right where the repair is which i still have to touch up but i have to do that anyways so i'm not making a bigger problem that's what i'm trying to say there and you can just kind of smooth it out and that leaves the putty just where you want it so that works pretty good too but i will look over that chair we just glued up and see if it needs any of that kind of work but we got two more to go here that need the whole works done as well and then and look at that upholstery okay so it's the next morning let's get these clamps off okay so feels super super sturdy there's absolutely no movement on this chair whatsoever so if you remember what it was before we had the glue hard enough that's a pretty awesome feet now i'm just going to go around and find little pieces of glue that i need to pop off from squeeze out it's like a little piece right there i usually just take one of my old chisels and work it off anywhere that i need to all right so there's some pretty big holes that i didn't get to they were under the clamps so i'm gonna putty those up now with my timbermate wood putty here so on this side here we had some pretty big nails on this one that we had to dig out and there's a crack here that was filled with epoxy so it's firm and steady so now we can putty that never put putty in a hole that is or a crack that is moving it'll just pop out and then i'm gonna look around to see anything that's offensive i don't mind little character marks from the age and wear the chair looking for like damage that kind of stands out and so now what i'm going to do is a little chunk of blue right there i'm using a um pro mark this is an antique maple color but it's just a nice golden oak color here and i'm just going to draw in over this putty give it some color okay this one this one i'm just gonna kind of draw that color in that's good for there you could do this with stain dye stain or some of your blend all stuff from mohawk a little chunk of glue right there lots of ways to color a touch up and it just depends where it is or what you're doing or what you got handy these work pretty awesome for just doing little touch-ups like this oftentimes i'll take my toners my mohawk toners and spray a little bit in the cap and then do some brush work to touch up these types of things too so it's another way that i do often i do a lot of different things a lot of different ways in the shop so if you see me doing something one way just wait and i'll do it another way next time i mean not everything like that but and there are so many different opinions out there on how to do things and i appreciate the opinions from the professionals who know what they're doing because you might learn some new tricks that you didn't know before i could make your jobs go quicker or get better results but i've been doing this for over 20 years and i'm not done learning yet so i'm always figuring out uh different things different products different processes and never cease to amaze me how many different ways there are to do something awesome okay so that all the putty holes so what i've been doing now um is cleaning the chairs because most furniture could use a good clean you're always grabbing it with your hands and your oils from your hands get stuck and years of that and dirt and things get filled up on the finish built up on the finish so i'm going to use um crud cutter and i've got it in my pail of water here too but i also like to just put a little bit on a green scratch brick pan and i'm going to start at the top usually the dirtiest part of the chair is this part right here where everybody grabs so you can kind of see it's a little darker than the rest of the finish so i'm gonna get my scotch grit just a little bit wet and i'm gonna just spray some crud cutter onto the wet scotch and just start washing that off [Music] a lot of times furniture just looks 10 times better after you give it a good clean and this is not full strength that i'm spraying in here it is watered down before it goes into the spray bottle just so you know a little bit more at the end of everything now i'm going to give these guys a polish with the howard's so i'm just going to use a gray scotch pad and i'm just going to keep applying it on here and just scrub the whole chair down with this and then wipe it down so i'm just going to pop a little bit on there and i'll start at the top again it's a great way to give some life back to something without refinishing it little white scuff marks and scrub those off at the same time and it usually helps to hide all those superficial scratches and things that aren't too serious but just kind of make the furniture look messy and i'm just gonna do the whole chair before i wipe it off gives a little bit of time to soak in and of course the chairs will need to dry overnight and then i can come back and give them a polish give me some time to do the upholstery okay so once you got that all scrubbed down i'm just gonna take my oily beeswax drag and i'm just going to wipe down the whole thing and this rag is pretty saturated and i keep it around that way hanging it's not a fire hazard because i can kind of smooth out that wax and polish and if there is a spot i missed then it'll catch that and fill that up awesome so just lay this out that is done so just kind of cleans it up and gives it a nice sheen again it'll uh dry a little bit and be a little less shiny more like a satin sheen but it looks good and it kind of hides a lot of the scratches and things if you're not refinishing so it's nice and clean it's all polished it's sturdy and now we can get on to the upholstery and put a nice new seat on it so got one of the seats on the workbench here and it's just held in with tacks so i'm gonna get to taking those out i thought i'd show you a couple of the tools that are my favorite for doing this kind of thing so mostly i use this cheapo which i've broken three of them but i cannot find a um uh tack popper that or puller that i really really like the dimensions of this one's really thin and you can really get underneath the tack nicely it's very light easy to hold in your hand the one that osborne makes which is a company that makes a lot of good um upholstery tools is really beefy the handle is kind of abrasive on your hand the actual thick part is are the actual tack removing areas really thick you can just see the difference here so it's much harder to get this underneath of things and i just find that i'm constantly going back to this thing and it's like i don't know maybe twelve dollars at um fabric land or you can order it from something online too i'm sure but if you don't have fabric land in your area but anyways i can show you the difference like when i'm using this guy i could usually just use my own pressure from my hand to pop it up although it is a lot easier on your wrist if you hold that in place and then give your your to a few extra hammer with this guy works just fine it's just i find it a little bit more cumbersome to use so it's really just a preference thing at this point they both do the job but i find myself enjoying using this one a lot more so i'm just gonna pull all these tacks out um the other thing i've got here is a staple puller uh and osborne makes a great actually this one is not osborne the other one i had was but this is made by berries i don't even know anything about this company but anyways this style of tool i really like for removing staples because you can get underneath and then flip and twist and just pops it up so i've always had one of these around there's no staples in these seats but um i thought i'd show you that tool and then i always keep a good side cutters for popping those out i don't use my really good side cutters because i don't need precision i just need something that can grab the staple and get it out of there so these ones are comfortable for my hands so let's get to pulling these tacks out shut up and do some work okay so i got all the tacks loose and i can feel a little bit of hay or horse hair under here see which one it is okay so i haven't seen this stuff before i've seen horse hair hay fibers cotton all that kind of stuff my professional posters out there what is this it just looks like hay but it's got a weird color to it anyways not super good at providing any padding maybe just for a little bit of shape so we're gonna get rid of that okay so now i've got my sheet of one inch foam here high density foam looks like we are missing a corner here that i'll have to repair because that's not gonna work did stay in the seat let's check this upholstery yep there it is what a find okay i'm going to glue this back on here so we'll just cut this out first because it's here one of my one of my viewers suggested that i use the band saw to cut the phone that's a great thing too i don't mind doing to say though [Music] my mom used to do that on the bandsaw she did all the or does all the upholstery for my dad at his shop in saskatoon okay so let's put this aside and i'm gonna glue this little chunk back on and then glue this guy down onto here and then we can get uh going with the vinyl okay so i've noticed like quite a few of these chair seats um have the holes drilled right through them so i'm just going to go ahead and fill these with some plugs these are 3 8 that i just drilled out and i'll just kind of pop them out this way you can cut them out on the bandsaw too but this is also pretty easy okay these are about the width of the entire seat i'm going to take a 3 8 forstner bit and just drill out [Music] right in the middle of these holes let me just pop this on for dust okay so then i'll just take my mustard and put a little glue in each hole i finally ate all my mustard and i threw out my terrible glue bottle and now i have mustard okay so i'm just going to line these up with the grain of the seeds and pop them in and you could use a dowel but it's just a lot stronger to glue into a plug actually thomas johnson has a really awesome commentary on why you would use a plug rather than a dowel so check his video out for that one and then i'll just pop them off with a chisel usually you would wait till they're dry to do this but this is good enough for this application let me just grab a glue right now be good and dry when we drill back into them later so that's what i'll do to the seat and uh then they'll be nice and strong and ready for attaching them back to the chairs and actually when you attach your chair to seats and it's a good attachment it really does add some structural strength to the whole thing so don't forget that that also adds something to the whole frame so don't underestimate the power of a good attached seat to keep a chair nice and square and sturdy so i'll do the rest of these and then we can get back to upholstery okay so i've got all the foams cut i did have to glue two pieces together here for this one so i'm just using a foam fast foam adhesive and i get a lot of my upholstery products at j ennis which is a canadian company anyways when you're spraying this glue stuff make sure you have a mask on and now we'll just glue these guys to the seats i'm not going to need a ton that'll do and then i'll just pop this guy down and i'm not going to be doing dafron over these i really want to keep a low profile going with these chair seats do a little bit of trimming probably not much though okay all right such a pretty blue look nice against that oak okay so i'm basically just going to cut it with about an inch and a half two inches around everything so that i have enough to bring over i don't need a lot to bring over the side it's not very stretchy so i gotta be careful not to shortchange myself too much about like that should be good just gonna make sure you got enough of these points yeah so [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay guys i've been working through these uh vinyl chair seats and just figuring out the best method to getting nice corners and cutting them was working but not perfectly so actually just warming the vinyl and pulling it over is working better on this vinyl every vinyl is different some is like a four-way stretch some is two-way um some is thick thin um you just gotta work with what you got and figure out the best way to do with what you got to do so i'm gonna give you some good hints on this stuff and this is not like a super thick vinyl but um it's not super thin either and uh i believe it's only a two-way stretch but i can't really get it to stretch much of any so i have to heat it up quite a bit so it's not super stretchy it's not super thick so that's saving grace but to get it around those corners i do need to heat it up so this is one that i've done here and so i'm just pulling it around that corner with some heat and getting it so that there's no no uh gathers on the sides here there will be gathers on the bottom but you don't see that so just making sure that a little bit rough right there that's up against the back rail so i'm just trying to hide extra material where i can and make the areas that you can see really nice and smooth so let's work through this one together this is my last guy so hopefully i can show you the best way to do this so first of all i'm just going to pin it i'm just going to pull the material over okay so working from the side the first thing is that you don't want to have too much of a or sorry you don't want to staple too close to the the corner on these ones because we're going to need to use a lot of pulling and we don't want to have uh the material stuck here before we do that so when you're getting your sides together first i'm gonna start like a good two and a half inches away the less fabric that you have in the corner the nice the smoother you can get it super important on these back ones because it is curved so my gathers are going to be on the bottom here and i'm just going to work it away from the corner so good so i've got the whole thing pinned and now we just got to work these corners so if you're doing this make sure you got a hair dryer handy to heat up the uh vinyl to stretch so i'm just going to turn this on then i'll get you guys nice and close here and you can just watch how i do it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] okay so i've got it all finished got it trimmed really close especially on the corners keeping them nice and flat so it lays down on the chair so that looks pretty good a few little folds and stuff i'm sure the professionals would do a much better job so grab a chair here i'm gonna flip this upside down and then i'll just screw it in with a couple of [Applause] just recheck little there there we go all right so there it is last thing that i need to do uh because we waxed these yesterday is just go over and um buff the polish out it's all dry now and that's it so thanks for joining me on this one again guys and don't forget to like and subscribe and check out our other videos if you enjoyed this one cheers [Music] so [Music] you

Channel: John's Furniture Repair

Views: 30,091

Rating: 4.9783669 out of 5

Keywords: Trena, john's furniture repair, thomas johnson, antique restoration, upholstering, shop, workshop, woodworking, clamps, gluing, glue, putty, wax

Id: eXVn0f52LhA

Length: 77min 34sec (4654 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 12 2021