steve morris
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we decided it was time for some nice dining chairs to match the other dining room furniture made by my father. the 30 yr old store bought stuff just doesnt go!! besides ive reglued every one of the old chairs several times!
we chose this design from popular woodworking: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/oct15/slat-back-chair
right now im working on a prototype to workout the joinery details and to correct a couple of errors in the plans/templates
so this chair is just made up from 4/4 soft maple
the legs are glued up from 4/4 material, i'll be using 8/4 for the real thing. some real challenges here, shaping the rear legs, angled mortises in the legs, angled shoulders for the tenons etc etc
the back slats(4 in all) are glued up over a form from 4 layers of 1/8 material, i need a better way to glue them up, ive got 24 to do in all and i clamped this one up for 24 hours!!
i'll post more build pictures of the various steps as i start the actual build of the 6 "real" chairs, lots of machinery and handtool work!
we chose this design from popular woodworking: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/oct15/slat-back-chair
right now im working on a prototype to workout the joinery details and to correct a couple of errors in the plans/templates
so this chair is just made up from 4/4 soft maple
the legs are glued up from 4/4 material, i'll be using 8/4 for the real thing. some real challenges here, shaping the rear legs, angled mortises in the legs, angled shoulders for the tenons etc etc
the back slats(4 in all) are glued up over a form from 4 layers of 1/8 material, i need a better way to glue them up, ive got 24 to do in all and i clamped this one up for 24 hours!!
i'll post more build pictures of the various steps as i start the actual build of the 6 "real" chairs, lots of machinery and handtool work!