The Flipping Idiot vs MCM Mirror Frame Repairs!

This Video is about a mid century modern mirror that I picked up along with the dresser.
I went to an apartment to transport the dresser, and I wasn’t aware it came with a mirror, but it was leaned up against the wall behind some moving boxes.
The Seller was kind enough to lift it up over the boxes for me, and a bottom piece came loose on the mirror frame and was dangling by a single dowel. I told him to just tear it off and he asked me if I was sure.
I said “yes” because I have a lot of glue at home.
That Decision was also a way to avoid having the dangling piece fall down on something hard and get some weird dents or break off a corner, which would be much more time consuming to repair.
As I mention in the video I used quick and thick glue from tite bond, which does a good job filling gaps, and if you’re gluing together pieces of wood that have previously been glued together, you can end up with dried up leftover glue that keeps the pieces from seating, perfectly, or coming together perfectly and many glues won’t work unless it’s good tight contact of clean wood to wood.
So I scrape the old glue with a wood river carbide glue scraper, I apply tite bond quick and thick glue for an adhesive, I clamp it with some grow clamps I got from Woodcraft During a holiday sale and I patch the hole with natural quikwood with mixed with Mixol #21.
I finish It with a combination of pigments, a Q-tip and shellac.
Easy, Peezy, mid century modern lemon squeezy.
Scraper
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Quick and Thick tite bond
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Quikwood
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Mixol pigments
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[@franciskisner920]

I held my breath when you started filing on the patch because the direction was out of the piece. On similar repairs, I found that filing or sanding into the piece was less likely to pull off the patch. Your save with the CA was good. Thanks for the video.

[@theflippingidiot7705]

Thanks!
For me it gets to the point where if I’m going to patch something… it takes about as long to make a big patch as a little patch.
Veneer repairs I try to keep small.
Quikwood? 1/2 inch or two inch is the same same for me!
And thanks for your comment.

[@sullivanspapa1505]

When you’re tapping the glue bottle as you did, you’re actually closing the cap!