HOW TO REPLACE A CHAIR BOTTOM 

I have a Bumbry rocking chair from the 1880’s that needs to be recained. Original cane 1/4”. I’ve not been able to find anybody to do the work for me so I guess I’m going to have to learn and do it myself. Absolutely the best rocking chair I have ever sat in in my life. It has quite a history.

This man is great. Very clear in his directions. He has some good pointers. Thank you for sharing. H. P. Sutton.

Very nice sir. God bless

Caned my first chair yesterday. Wish I could post a picture. It came out great! I owe it all to you and your easy to follow video! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much! I've got an old chair from the 40's we've been watching deteriorate and NOW i have a way to make it like new!

I remember Pap Paw doing this when I was little. Great times growing up!!

This video and instructions are exactly what I need to repair an old rocking chair. Thank you!

Good man….. that’s a clean job.

Thanks for the video! I have a photo of a child's rocker I just did using your instruction, but I don't know how to attach it to this comment. It is for our granddaughter who will turn 1 in about 3 weeks. The chair was my wife's when she was a little girl.

Glad I stumbled onto this video I've had a rocking chair on my porch for 10 years with no bottom wondering how to fix it now I think I can handle it thanks

Thank you. Very informative, I'm building my chairs and will probably even paint them red.

Amazing! I've been going back watching all your old videos and you have so many talents and skills. I Love the fact that you value the old ways and things passed down through generations. I'm really enjoying your channel so far.

Very nice. I have several old chairs that I'm planning to fix. These are the best chairs when you want to sit around and scrub off some tunes.

I love it!! Your tutorial is crystal.clear. I am going to order cane right now. Yesterday, I bought a rocker from an 80 year old lady. Ir needed cane and springs but otherwise excellent, sturdy and the wood spindles immaculate. They were downsizing and.the chair had been stored in the attic. Belonged to her husband's grandma!! I feel like I scored a treasure.

Thanks for the instructive video. I'm going to use it to weave a seat in my great grandfathers chair.

I could not add a photo here of my little rocker using fabric. It turned out wonderfully well and I am pleased. I made fabric strips that were 8 layers thick and a one over, one under pattern. Your video helps a lot so again... thanks much.

Thank you for this video. I put a new seat in my grand-daughter's rocker using your tutorial. It certainly doesn't look as beautiful as yours, but I think it will hold. Thanks again!!

This guy does a fabulous job with this video. Very helpful.

This man is amazing. And I love his accent lol!

You are a Master of this. I'm 65 and I watched my Dad do this as a little girl. He cut his own caning and started and spliced just as you do. I'm in southern My and he used hickory or white oak. You are the first one on RU-vid I've seen do this. Very professional and highest quality work. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for this! My Dad was an antique dealer and had so many requests for this type work.

My Granny had some old home made chairs like that but they had used bailer twine to weave chair bottoms for them .

Thank you so much for your tutorial! really easy to follow. I've re-caned canoe seats with narrower strands but never had to splice strands together. I really appreciate the tip!

Awesome work man...just shared the video! Love to learn something every day!

Gorgeous....gonna do an old rocker ! You're such a gifted young man...be blessed !

I sure did like the demonstration on the chair bottoming . Great video as usual. God Bless all the family .

Thanks so much for posting. Between yours and one other helpful video, I rescued a rocker! Enjoyed your Blackberry Blossom too!!

Thank you so much for sharing this! I wanted to learn this from my grandma before she passed away, but I wasnt capable of cutting down and stripping the bark off a tree to do it. Thank you so much! I think this is how she did it too!

Now I'll have to start watching for old wooden chairs! Love this. Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas....

Beautiful !! True craftsman !! i got a few old straight back chairs im planning on doin soon , did a Deer hide bottom years ago, Thanks for Your video , it will be very helpful . God Bless & take care !!

Good job Jared! 👍👍👏👏👌👌❤️ God bless each & every one of ur family!

That is some fine work, thanks for showing us how it's done, wondered many a time myself. Whoops, just noticed it's past eleven o'clock at night . You're going to make me late going to bed again, but it's worth it.

This is excellent instruction! Thank you!!

This video was excellent!!! I appreciate your good craftsmanship! I am starting a ladder back chair that originally had rushing for the seat but it had broken over the years.

Thank you so much!! I've been wanting to redo my daughter's chair ( it was mine from childhood) but I didn't know what to do. You saved it!

Love your teaching method. Awesome technique. Totally different than other videos. Like yours best. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing your skill.

Back in the mid fifties my great-uncle replaced the bottoms in his ladder back chairs with hickory bark. As I was growing up I had only seen him do a repair on two chairs within 20 years. They were comfortable chairs once the bark was worn smooth.

Awesome video, I have my grandmother’s old rocker and I think I’m going to try and fix it using your video

Thanks. Easy to follow instructions.

Nice pattern. I have never seen that done before. I can see it tightening up as you go so I see why you leave it loose in the beginning.

You inspired me to try an old stool I have! Thanks!

Is there anything that you can’t do , ? Got bless you. I know your Mama is so proud of her boy. God bless you BIG.

Great work Man, I’m gonna give this a try. Jerad if it works out could you do a video using hickory bark, from harvesting the bark to weaving the chair. I have a 10 hickory trees around and would really like to give this a try. Thanks. Great job, Mike

Estou assistindo esse video em 2021, amei apesar de nao entender o idioma aprendi bastante, sou do Brasil.

That is really beautiful work. Jesus is Lord, and He is coming soon, so it won't need to last that long, but it is really beautiful. God bless. Maranatha.

Another awesome video! Thanks for teaching us this. I have weaved a new seat in chairs using the paper rush but never cane. I will have to order some now!

thanks. easy to understand. I will definitely give it a shot. got a couple of old Grandma chairs.

Very nice, always wondered how that was done. Thanks for sharing. You are a talented young man. Have a Merry Christmas.

Great work, enjoyed the video very much.

Wonderful video!! I always wanted to know how to do that!!! Thank you for sharing!!!! Miss Kelly!!!

this is such a wonderful tutorial video. Thank you for posting this. We are going to tackle our old rocking chair :)

Great job on the chair, informative and easy to understand video!

I've always wanted to see this done! Thanks for sharing!

Just wanted to say thank you for your time and trouble to do this video. I just finished my first chair cane seat and back . . . and looking at it afterwards . . . I messed it up . . . but I'm not going to take it all out and do it over. I sat in it tonight for a little while . . . will enjoy the heck out of it come this spring . . . it'll be my front porch rocker . . . maybe snoozer. I'm gonna try and find you on facebook . . . shoot you a couple of pictures . . . you'll giggle at my mistakes . . . but what the heck . . . it's just a cane bottom front porch rocker.

Beautiful! You made it look so easy........ Tell the family Merry Christmas and God Bless.......

Beautiful work.

Wow its a work of art!

Thank you for the very informative video. I just caned my first chair it turned out great . I’m going to start a rocking chair using the hickory bark like you did in your other video.

Thank you for sharing this i been wanting to try this for a while im down here outside of boone NC .

Simply beautiful!! Love the herringbone design. Very good tutorial.

Totally beautiful i.love it such a good job.

That was an absolutely awesome video. I love your videos. I would love to see more soon. Especially your great house. I've been watching videos on how to make a hewn log house and I think they are the best design by far. I probably won't make one, but I love learning anyway. Your house is something else. God bless you and your beautiful family and merry Christmas. From the Ozarks in Missouri.

Beautiful work! Thank you. My caning project is for a dollhouse, 1:12 scale, so the chair in TINY. I plan to use raffia for the caning, but if that doesn't work, I'll try embroidery thread. I want my chair to look just like yours.

Perfect, I needed this, have two old rocking chairs. Thanks a lot, really great!

Great instructional video, thank you.

Man that's really cool, I always wondered how they did those chairs like that.

Beautiful job!

Thanks for this video! It was very informative. I have some old chairs that I was going to replace the cane bottoms with cushions but now can fix them the right way! Love your channel. Great videos and super family too!

Very nice work! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family! Thank you for sharing!

Great job.... And thank you for the video, I think I can do it now....

I’d love to try this. Thanks for the learning.

Great job, you make it look easy!!! Thank you I'm a new subscriber today!!

Thanks for the tutorial

Very informative! I've only done the rush weaving and have made some cordage with corn husks that I hope to use on a chair but I've never tried the cane. You're very talented! :)

Wow nice work

Beautiful work!

Thanks for the lesson. Very interesting. I am going to try it using fabric strips. Hope it works.

Love that it is a wonderful talent. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to you and yours. Looking forward to many more videos

Can you show in detail how you splice your cane? I didn't quite get that as it was a little hard to see maybe like a close up?? That would be great. Your chairs look really great I can't wait to do one.

all the best to you and yours from new Zealand hope to get a farm in easy ky very soon cheers phil

I really enjoyed this video! I sat in so many chairs just like that one as I grew up! It was wonderful to see you do this, I'd always wondered how they were made. Great job! Thank you! GOD bless you and your family! Bee blessed Danny and Rita in TN on Rooster Ridge

Merry Christmas from Floyd County.

Looks great

I’m totally inspired and have a couple of questions: How much cane was needed to complete the seat bottom on ½” cane? How much would one of the tall rocking chair back and seat need in the ¼”? I have 3 antique chairs that have needed reworking in the herringbone pattern, and finally I know exactly how to do it! Thanks so much for the instructions!

Great job. Lovin your channel over here in Carolina. What do y'all call it when you mess up on a pattern? If Nanny did while sewing, quilting, caning etc, she'd call it a turkey track.

video well done, great job

hey buddy can you do a video on how to do the chinking on your cabin?

Pretty cool!!

Love that join!

Thanks!

Thanks for the video! I just replaced the bottom in a rocker that was built in 1939 by my great great grandfather for grandmother at 3yrs old. Your video was extremely helpful! Question for though, I had the bottom side getting tighter much faster than the top and was harder to keep the weave close together. Is that common?

Thank you

I love this video

Nice 🙏🏼👍👍👍👍

Awesome , I am saving this video in my favorites :-) Do you put any kind of finish on it after it dries ?

Excellent tutorial I have two of my grandmother’s chairs - probably over 100 years old each. Your tutorial has given me the confidence to try to repair or completely re-cane. Do you have any advice of just a few splints are broken? Do you think I should start from scratch or just do a repair?

This video was very helpful! Does anyone know if the reed can be stained? The frame is very old, natural and dark. I rubbed it down with some orange oil before weaving the seat back in. The reed is new, light and a stark contrast. I got some Dixie Belle gel stain to hopefully make it look more cohesive.

awsome

How do you know how much cane you need? My great grandma had a cane bottom rocker that my grandma painted it years ago and now the cane is cracking. We use it daily to rock my baby. Love to keep these old pieces of furniture!