Jim, Sometimes undoing someone else’s mess is a whole lot harder than starting from scratch!
The builder of the chair was a good carver but must not have had a square. Some things were done really well and other things (that were original to the chair) were done poorly. All the repair work that had been done was pretty horrendous.
L/W
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin