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<\/p>\nDan contacted me about a shell chair that needed some love. It had seen better days for sure. It was missing a few feet, the shell was cracked and the entire surface has some sort of goo brushed over it… but underneath there was a beautiful chair wanting to shine through again.<\/p>\n
A good bit of time in the workshop later, and it is truly magnificent.<\/p>\n
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[Insert lost image here \u2014 thanks, Typepad!]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n My friend Dan sent a photo of a busted up Eames chair from a Garage sale. From the photos it did not look too bad.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the workshop:<\/strong> Under the lights and scrutiny of the workshop, the evils truly appeared… the crack was somewhat structural and the layer of goo was at least 3mils thick. It took a lot of time to get the chair back to the base layer of fiberglass and repair the crack (which involved grinding out a good bit of dirty repair gunk.).<\/p>\n Pro-tip: If you can’t fix something right, you might give it a pass and call someone who can… It’s always harder to fix a bad repair than to fix it right in the first place.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After:<\/strong> After the scouring, the repair and some re-coating, the chair shines like new. Add some TLC to the H-base and some new feet and it’s bright and shiny again.<\/p>\n (This is the corner where the crack was… can you spot it?)<\/p>\n [More gratuitous close-up shots]<\/p>\n Dan contacted me about a shell chair that needed some love. It had seen better days for sure. It was missing a few feet, the shell was cracked and the entire surface has some sort of goo brushed over it… but underneath there was a beautiful chair wanting to shine through again. A good bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-furniture-restoration"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nBefore:<\/strong> From the original photos, the crack was evident, but it didn’t look too bad…<\/p>\n![\"Screenshot](\"\/norcalmod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e202c8d3b2ff80200c-800wi.png\" "\\"Screenshot")
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