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Structural repairs that come before any finish.
The same chair joint reglued three times will fail a fourth unless something changes. This note covers the four reasons a mortise and tenon keeps loosening and what to do about each one, in the order you should check them.
17 September 2026 #mortise-tenon#hide-glue#draw-bore#chair#structural
A lifted veneer bubble is almost always a glue failure, not a veneer failure, and it is usually re-layable. The whole job is getting glue into a gap you cannot see and clamping it flat without squeezing the glue back out.
26 September 2026 #veneer#lifting#hide-glue#clamping#veneer-press
Gluing a split in a solid tabletop back together without acknowledging why it split is a repair with a known expiry date. A butterfly key, cut across the grain, is the traditional answer and it is the right one more often than the modern alternatives.
16 October 2026 #butterfly-key#dutchman#split-top#breadboard#hide-glue#structural
Nothing on the bench matches that probe.
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