this is a really nice couch we bought used but I've just recently noticed
there is a gap right here and then gap here and a gap here some of this got
damaged during the move so time to fix it so there's these inserts that these
studs fit into and you can tell this one's cracked out a little bit too this
one is cracked out a fair bit more and this is some old glue so somebody
previously tried to glue this together and this - so that's probably from
before the move I was actually tempted to pull those
joints back together with pocket holes but when I realized how easily the whole
thing came apart I figured I should just disassemble it and reglue it I'm looking
in this hole and the crack at the bottom of the hole is both in as far as this
thing is long so this damage is quite deep okay that didn't fix it you'll see
what this surplus for later I didn't want to use a sander to clean this up
because I figured it was just gum up the belt
it doesn't even look like they used any glue it all in here or hardly any almost
no glue at least this is easy to clean up know
each one's are damaged them if I try to pull them out so I'll have to leave
whatever glue is in there. I thought I'd mabe just put some wood screws
somewhere else but now I'm thinking maybe I should fix this
but the damaged area is actually was all the way up to here so I need to route
that out and put an insert in and a good machine to do that on is my slot
mortiser and I'm just gonna use my router fence to hold this on there vertically
so I think I got out all that was cracked in here it's a bit like a
dentist drilling out the rotten part of a tooth
and now I'm using that circle I drew earlier to find the center of the old
hole now I don't have to take any measurements and it's less error-prone
and now reassembling that whole frame but this time with proper wood glue and
here I'm having a really frustrating time trying to get all those joints to
close at the same time I just couldn't get those joints close to my
satisfaction so I ended up a praying it all apart drilling the dowel holes a
little bit deeper and then putting it back together again
with the frustrations I've had trying to close these joints I'm looking at the
other side now and I notice this joint has got quite a gap in it that joint is
closed that joints got a gap this doesn't quite line up right here so this
was never right in the first place
after I put it back together I decided that those threaded inserts weren't
enough to hold the whole side assembly so I added five more wood screws and a
few wood screws to the other side as well so not a perfect job visible gap
here and here but based on glue residue those were there when we got the coach
and I never really paid much attention to that until the gap got really big and
of course now that I fixed it it bothers me that it isn't perfect