Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-16 Thread Bob Kennedy
dyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:47 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes My disclaimer is I don't know squat about cane chairs, rebuilding them or wood working however I am pretty fair at repairing and resurrecting holes that are no longer strait or r

Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-16 Thread Lee A. Stone
8 8:20 AM > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes > > > That's what I intended to describe, the pull of the cane pressing the wedge > shaped blocks into there sockets. Yes, it sounds a lot of work, there is > probably a sim

Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-16 Thread Dale Leavens
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:47 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes My disclaimer is I don't know squat about cane chairs, rebuilding them or wood working however I am pretty fair at repairing and resurrecting holes tha

Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Fowle
Also from my perspective of total ignorance of caning It seems to me that repairing holes by inserting dowels and re-drilling would leave a very thin wall next to the original breakout, and that this is where the pressure of the new cane will be maximum. Maybe we're all carrying speculation from i

RE: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-16 Thread Larry Stansifer
Fowle Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:20 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes That's what I intended to describe, the pull of the cane pressing the wedge shaped blocks into there sockets. Yes, it sounds a lot of work, there is probably a sim

Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-16 Thread Tom Fowle
; > - Original Message - > From: Tom Fowle > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:27 AM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes > > > Assuming these are holes going through the rails of the chair from top to &

Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-15 Thread Dale Leavens
. - Original Message - From: Tom Fowle To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:27 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes Assuming these are holes going through the rails of the chair from top to bottom, and the cane is fed through

Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-14 Thread Era Trice
@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:27 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes Assuming these are holes going through the rails of the chair from top to bottom, and the cane is fed through them as it makes a vertical 180 degree bend, I'd think you'd have to

Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Fowle
Assuming these are holes going through the rails of the chair from top to bottom, and the cane is fed through them as it makes a vertical 180 degree bend, I'd think you'd have to use a tiny saw to enlarge the broken out area of the hole and get a clean edge. I'd want to make the cuts so as to creat

[BlindHandyMan] caning repairing holes

2008-11-14 Thread Lenny McHugh
I talked to an old friend who attended Overbrook school for the blind. There he was taught how to cane chairs. I told him about the old rocker with the broken out holes. He told me that they repaired the holes by gluing in small blocks. Looking at this chair I can't figure out how that was acco