This chair came in with two broken joints in the seat and snapped tenons on one of the large spindles. The legs, second large spindle, and small spindles also needed to be re-glued.
The repair required making new tenons from oak for one of the large spindles. I did this by making dowels of the correct size for the mortises, cutting off the old tenons, boring out holes for the new tenons in the spindle, gluing in the dowels, and cutting to appropriate length. I then re-glued the chair seat and reassembled the chair.
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