A Closer Look: The Glue-Up - Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration
10 Video Views·Dec 11, 2022
Tom Johnson of Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration in Gorham, Maine shows us an in-depth, real-time look at the process of gluing and clamping a tabletop. Tom has been restoring furniture professionally since 1979. Visit our website at http://www.thomasjohnsonrestoration.com, call us at (207) 222-2266, or write us at [email protected]. And for those on the west coast looking for custom framing, be sure to check out Tom's daughter's shop, https://www.emcollier.com (@emcollierframes on Instagram).
I'm Tom Johnson, Thomas Johnson Antique Furniture Restoration in Gorm, Maine. We enjoy making these
furniture restoration videos, but due to the nature of our work and the nature of the video
medium, we often have to leave things out. We just don't have time to put them in. So,
this is a sequence from my video from the side of the road to the center of the room
that we thought was worthy of a closer look. Here I glue up a tabletop where every board
had come unglued on its way to a complete restoration.
Doing it for the dog.
Okay.
All right, you can see I wasn't, obviously these are lousy joints. I couldn't run them
through the jointer. I'd lose too much wood. There were so many. But I wasn't really prepared
for how hard it would be to get them to come together on the ends. But I think it's going
to be all right. I hope you enjoyed this closer look at a glue up, and I hope you
agree with me that it looks pretty good. I'll see you next time.