pin block repacement

[Owen Greyling]

Hello list,

 

I have a question regarding a procedure for removing a Hardman pin block. I
have replaced blocks before, but this one appears to have been installed
using a slightly different technique. While being doweled and glued to the
inner rim shelf, there is also a mortise or rabbet under the stretcher that
the pin block material is let into. The veneer on the front of the stretcher
at each end, leads me to suspect that the block / stretcher were originally
installed as a unit. Not really wanting to remove the stretcher, I'm
wondering if I could simply cut the block out in the normal fashion (router
and big bit), leaving the part of the old block that is under the stretcher
intact and gluing the new block to that. This is complicated by the presence
of a large cove cut in the bottom of the block / stretcher for fallboard
clearance.  I'm hoping that some one has done this before, and can offer a
procedure that has worked in the past.

 

Thanks for any help at all,

 

Owen (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

 

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