Bringing old wooden furniture back to working life.
Maple Workshop collects hands-on notes from a small bench in Ontario: how to tighten a wobbly chair, lift a tired finish, and keep solid wood stable through dry Canadian winters and humid summers.
A furniture restoration bench. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Guides
Three jobs that come up on almost every piece.
Each guide walks through a single, common task in detail, with the tools, the order of operations, and the small judgements that decide whether the repair lasts.
Repairing Loose Chair Joints
Why old glue lets go, how to take a joint apart without splitting it, and how to re-glue and clamp for a repair that holds.
