How to Repair & Age Wood: A Rustic Wooden Chest Repair by Fixing Furniture

It's a broken rustic wooden chest. Watch how to repair it and also how to age bare wood to make it look like the rest of the chest. You'll learn valuable furniture restoration tips as Scott walks through the detailed steps of how to successfully repair the chest. Repairing a broken piece of furniture like this starts with inspecting the damaged wood and deciding what to do with it. For this chest, there are some loose parts and some poorly-repaired parts that need to be separated and reglued. After that, it's planning what wood to cut out to install wood patches. Part of the problem with this chest is the hinges have been replaced multiple times. There's evidence of 2 previous hinges before this one came off. I replace the hinges with hinges designed for a chest. I also install a lid stay to keep the lid from falling back and straining the hinges. I disassemble the lid and plane the two board so they can be glued back together again. I use a jointer plane for this which is a hand-powered alternative to a jointer machine. Once the lid is glued up and back in one piece, I modify the chest to accommodate the smaller lid. With some new wood and some modified wood, those parts look too new. I share my techniques for aging wood so that the modifications are not obvious to the untrained eye. It's a fun process that's artistic. After the finish is dry, I secure the lid and the lid stay to the chest, and it's ready to go back to the customer. RELATED VIDEOS: How to Heating & Insulate a Garage Workshop https://youtu.be/eyO2jjO_udc LINKS: Self-centering Drill Bits - https://amzn.to/3zbQYa1 Note: purchases made with these links help contribute to our video production work VIDEO TOPICS: 00:00 How to repair & age wood 01:25 Inspect damaged wood 05:17 Secure loose wood 10:38 Replace damaged wood 20:22 Fix gap between boards 35:29 Trimming wood patches 39:16 Trim chest for repaired top 46:56 New hinge hardware 52:43 Patching in old wood 54:05 Tips for aging wood Fixing Furniture is not only a YouTube channel but it's also a membership community. Get access to videos before they're published on YouTube, watch all the videos without ads, get downloadable reference sheets, and participate in Fixing Furniture Live every two weeks. Learn more about membership at https://www.fixingfurniture.com OUR NEWSLETTER - Sign up at https://www.fixingfurniture.com See the tools we use in our workshop and the tools we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/homeimprovementwoodworking 🇨🇦 Canadian link - https://www.amazon.ca/shop/homeimprovementwoodworking Fixing Furniture is hosted by Scott Bennett, Owner of Wooden It Be Nice - Furniture Repair in Brooklin, Ontario, Canada. https://WoodenItBeNice.ca #repair #wood #woodworking