Can anyone help fix my cursed rocking chair?

[Chi Meson]

cut the broke part off altogether and replace it with a shaped block of hardwood. Connect both ends with scarf joints.

rasp file and sand the block into shape.

 

[Evo]

It's OK. I've got Evo insurance.

NOBODY has Evo insurance! Look behind you, because the Spanish Inquisition might be bearing down.

I am cursed. You guys would bust a gut if I told you everything that's happened to me. I've repeatedly been told I should write a book.

I volunteer to work at a radio station and they get bombed by the KKK. I volunteer to drive co-workers out of town to an important meeting three hours away and my gas tank springs a leak in the middle of nowhere.

I'm driving friends to school and my 1 year old car's gas line bursts apart.

I've known more people that commit suicide or get murdered, or just die in their sleep. I was out of state for a week for work and I left my kids with our neighbor that had three girls that were my girl's best friends. I get a call from my oldest daughter, around 8 years old saying "mommy, you need to come home, their mommy won't wake up and she's dead and we're all alone".

 

[turbo]

When I was a kid, I was a running joke with our doctor's family. I was close friends with both of his sons, but I think he would have preferred that they not hang out with me so they wouldn't get in the same trouble that I did. When I showed up, his first two lines were "NOW, what did you do?" and "Alright, up on the table." I have more stitches than a quilt.

 

[physics girl phd]

This might actually be a viable solution.

Wife suggested
1] using a sinew
and also
2] a padding along the rim
Maybe I should listen to her more. (it was actually a gift from my father to her)

then couldn't wife suggest 3] burning it?

all the talk of fixing with rawhide makes me hope you don't have a dog.

 

[AlephZero]

If it's broken that much, you will have released most of the "locked in" stress that was holding the whole chair back together, left over from when the wood was first bent.

If you patch up the break, don't be surprised if all the other joints in the chair back start working loose in a few weeks.

Unless you want to enjoy the challenge of bending a new rim and rebuilding the whole back, I would just give it a decent buriial or cremation or whatever your culture does with deceased chairs.

 

[DaveC426913]

then couldn't wife suggest 3] burning it?

It was gifted to me/her by my father. The reason I'm asking about it now is because recently she mentioned she'd like to have it working.

If it's broken that much, you will have released most of the "locked in" stress that was holding the whole chair back together, left over from when the wood was first bent.

If you patch up the break, don't be surprised if all the other joints in the chair back start working loose in a few weeks.

The whole chair is on its component pieces right now right down to the ribs, all waiting to be glued back together.

 

[ThomasT]

I am cursed. You guys would bust a gut if I told you everything that's happened to me. I've repeatedly been told I should write a book.

I volunteer to work at a radio station and they get bombed by the KKK. I volunteer to drive co-workers out of town to an important meeting three hours away and my gas tank springs a leak in the middle of nowhere.

I'm driving friends to school and my 1 year old car's gas line bursts apart.

I've known more people that commit suicide or get murdered, or just die in their sleep. I was out of state for a week for work and I left my kids with our neighbor that had three girls that were my girl's best friends. I get a call from my oldest daughter, around 8 years old saying "mommy, you need to come home, their mommy won't wake up and she's dead and we're all alone".

Hmmmm. I was thinking about sending you a friend request. But now, I don't think so. Thanks for the honest disclosure. Apologies for the off topic post. To Dave: get a new chair.