Most broken furniture parts are easy to repair. TOOLS: Sturdy cord, C-clamps or pipe clamps, 8- to 10-inch sturdy dowel, pliers, wire cutters, pencil, drill, small handsaw, screwdriver, sharp chisel, ...

“I wonder how this got broken.” My father held up the fragments of the gray Picasso plate that he’d just unearthed from a box in my mother’s attic. Long ago, the plate had been broken and repaired, ...