Repairing Stripped Screws on a Pennsylvania Dutch 6-Board Chest with a Dutchman!

Greetings! Come along and learn how to repair stripped hinge screws on a 1700's (possibly early 1800's) Pennsylvania Dutch blanket chest properly! Stripped screws is an extremely common furniture repair problem--and many attempts to fix it only make things worse, the proper repair is to replace the damaged section of wood with a proper patch called a "dutchman." This is an old and very traditional way to repair damaged wood and has a long history of use by many trades from joiners to boat rights and every body in between. You will want to have this technique in your "bag of tricks!" Check out our Patreon! http://patreon.com/user?u=65477656 0:00 About the furniture being repaired 11:00 Generations of bad "fixes"... 13:30 ...and our good one! 17:10 Cutting out the mortise 27:30 fitting the "dutchman" 29:53 The Glue-up 37:15 Trimming the "dutchman" flush 43:34 The final product!