Twisted Table Leg
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Looking for advise on how to resolve a twisted leg issue. This table was made from the 20’s to mid 50’s from what i have found. Does anyone have any ideas on how you would repair this twist short of making a new one?
Robert
That’s a lot of twist, and I don’t know any clever way to untwist it. I might try cutting it just below the top block at the point where it transitions to fully round and then rejoin it with a fairly large dowel, say 1″ diameter oak or something like that. Two problems. The cut has to be absolutely perpendicular to the leg axis and the holes for the dowel would have to be dead on the centerline and exactly parallel to it. You might come up with a special miter box design to solve the cut problem. The holes are going to be very hard to pull off unless you can accurately find the center and then maybe work out a way to hold them in a drill press. I suppose you could be a little sloppy with the hole size and use epoxy to fill the gaps. It doesn’t work the way it is so if the solution fails, you end up with two short pieces of firewood instead of one long one. Good luck with it. Maybe some of the others know a better trick.
I’m not offering a solution, just curious querying …
I’m guessing this work would have been without twist at build time, and twisted due to still being green, or having gotten humid at some point after it was built? Could you humidify it again to try to untwist it, then dry it back out in the correct alignment?