Yes I had a furniture repair shop in the sixties... No different than wood today if you just stay away from IKEA. Someone tried to repair this table a few times before me and look what they used and ended up making more busted things. Looks  

like a jar of hide glue was wasted on this repair. And from the new screws to the old screw holes of maybe years before are evidence these folks had problems for a few years. And the off color of wood dough might show another time wasted to get it back to being usable again.

  It is a 60" round dining table with 2 leaves which does put a strain on the lower end...

 

If a person says yes they can repairs things so they will look the same as before the accident then one needs to take pictures for a little proof for the next potential customer . I use to take pictures of the before and after which had to be sent off to be developed or use a polaroid and the pictures would wash out to a blank shiny piece of paper in a short time so lots of my proof kept sliding away in time.

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Edited September 6, 20197 yr by Smallpatch

I wonder why those screw wouldn't hold to that rotten wood?    They must not have had access to replacement wood.  I can't tell what it is, but glue and paint will make it what it ain't.  

All it needs is a dose of Gorilla Glue ;-) 

Stuff today is different -- all sorts of cheap, wet, and inferior wood put together in Asia by people who were farming last month.

 

I used to shiver when I heard the words, "My husband tried to repair this with Gorilla Glue."  Doubled the time and effort.

49 minutes ago, kmealy said:

Doubled the time and effort.

I usually add a hefty "stupid fee" to such jobs.  Not that I do many, or a few, in fact working for someone else other than my job = rare.

I have loads of admiration for you guys that fix inept DIYer's repair attempts. Gotta be frustrating at times. 

Among my first repairs was a rocking chair with a very thin bottom.  I used a paint stirrer with sand paper to sand out the old glue in the seat bottom.  I checked it by clamping it dry and it looked perfect.  So, I applied the glue.  I decided that it would not move up and down, but alas I was wrong.  I came back about 20 minutes later and the bottom had shifted.  I did not have the tool to gently slice it open.  So, I have never done another chair bottom.  Correct clamping can prevent much re-do.  

I had to repair a split wooden seat on a chair once.  I glued and clamped it back together the put in a dutchman/viking/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.    I did not point it out to customer when she picked it up but she noticed it and was pleasantly surprised.

Wow did that bring back memories... My Dad had a table like that. 

One day I put my heavy computer on it and i busted off a leg just like that.

My brother still has that table with the leg that i had to fix.

2 hours ago, Kevin Beitz said:

My brother still has that table with the leg that i had to fix.

 

Renters ac ross the street from me put one like this outside.  In 3 months it was firewood.  Real shame.