{"id":28596,"date":"2025-10-20T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28596"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:51:36","slug":"workshop-diy-hannibal-lectern-restoration-pt-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28596","title":{"rendered":"WORKSHOP\/DiY: Hannibal Lectern, Restoration, Pt III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3437-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28679\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3437-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3437-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3437-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, 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Clamps and glue alone &#8211; even using a thick mix of glue and sawdust &#8211; were failing to fix the broken \u2018feet\u2019 of the two side panels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately they required the use of penetrating dowels. Which worked admirably. I also put the little \u2018feet\u2019, removed at an earlier stage, back on. Albeit in slightly new positions. And again, dowels were used, rather than screws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annoyingly I don\u2019t seen to have pictures of the addition of the feet\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to remedy numerous issues, such as: a prod dowel (tapped back down); a missing dowel (first image, below); filling some holes in the top surface, etc. The lower portion of the lectern also required so e more drastic work. Clamps and glue alone &#8211; even using a thick mix of glue and sawdust &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WORKSHOP\/DiY: Hannibal Lectern, Restoration, Pt III&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"WORKSHOP\/DiY: Hannibal Lectern, Restoration, Pt II","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28779,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28596\/revisions\/28779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}