Hello AT,
Does anyone know an inexpensive carpenter who wouldn't mind doing a
small repair job? This stool is a casualty of my holiday party. It just needs to have the cracked wood glued and the legs screwed back in. I am hoping to find someone who can fix it without charging a lot (I'm totally broke!) or giving me a hard time for wasting his/her time with such a small job.
Thanks! Karen
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Oh, what a shame! Just to clarify, carpenter friends, what you are telling me is true even though the legs are not one piece to begin with but rather the bottom half screws into the top half in the exact place where they came off? If so, thanks for the advice, everyone. I am sad but better sad than sad and out a bunch of money, I guess.
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i think you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who wants to bother. why not throw yourself at the mercy of your local hardware store? they can probably hook you up with what you need to fix it and give you plenty of guidance as to how to do it yourself.
Not sure I trust my hardware store, since they sold me some goop for stripping a set of dining room chairs and it turned my simple sanding project into a nightmare!
are you in ny? barney's on 6th avenue in the village is good... along with blaustein's on bleecker street and garber's on hudson.
Karen -
Sorry, kid - that is an unfixable break. You might be able to dowel it and glue it, but it will never ever be weight bearing. And it would be a very time intensive attempt which will cost bunches for nothing - far more than it is worth. Give it up.
Hi Karen,
I can recommend someone, however, I will try and locate his information later today and post it. The chair is fixable. Check back tomorrow for the post.
Hi Karen,
Try Russell Lipnicky. He is a great carpenter who has done some amazing work. His number is 718-258-0976. Good luck.
Oh dear god, the humanity! Windwolf nailed it and he's absolutely right. I make furniture and that break is fatal (defined as "is the cost to repair greater than the value of the piece").
Karen,
You can make it look the way it was, but you can't get it to work the way it was.
If you want to pay more than the price to buy a new one, you can but have to change the whole structure of the broken side.
Don't get duped by someone who'll glue it on for you. You might be happy when you see it fixed, but when someone sits on it......