Now that the stools were assembled, it was time to tackle the seat weaving.
The material that I chose to use is fibre rush. This is a paper product that imitates the look of natural rush and has been in use since the early 1900’s. I had planned on researching and writing a thorough post on fibre rush, but Cathryn Peters (wickerwoman.com) has a “history of” article on here site that covers it. Jump over there and have a read and then come back. I’ll wait… Continue reading
With all of the parts complete, it was time to bore some holes. There are (24) rungs which left me facing (48) holes that needed to be drilled plumb and square. It’s not that difficult of task really, but one errant hole can mess up the whole works. Actually, a little variance can be beneficial by way of adding tension into the frame. Too much variance though will either split a post or make it impossible to assemble the frame. Continue reading
Progress continues on the stools. Mostly one hour at a time after work each day. This has become my basic workflow as of late. Come home, check in and then out to the shop until dinner time. Then grab as much time over the weekend as I can. Anyway… Continue reading
My exploration of seating continues with a couple of Shaker inspired stools. Many, many moons ago, long before GPS, we made a trip to Nashville for a friend’s wedding. We had very little money at the time and knew this would be the only trip for that year. Unfortunately our time in Nashville was less than pleasant, other than the wedding. Anyway, on the trip home we began looking for any stop that would salvage the trip. My wife scanned over the road atlas and stumbled on the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill just outside of Lexington, KY. So, on a whim, we routed ourselves to the village. Continue reading
The second chair went together pretty much as the first. Continue reading
Since my last post I have managed to turn and fit the stretchers for the second chair. I truly do enjoy the spring pole lathe. Nothing like and hour at the lathe after work to rid the mind of the stresses of my day.
With the parts for both undercarriages fabricated it was time to turn my attention to shaping the seats. Given my whining about having to resort to using an electric router to round the edges of the back mortises and handle cutout, I really wasn’t looking forward to tackling the seats. Once I got started however I found that I could do all of the shaping with hand tools. So no electric router torture was needed. Continue reading
Plywood sucks!
I’ve been in the shop every chance I get working on these chairs (technically back stools). Mostly things have progressed reasonably well. The first thing I tackled was turning the six legs. This is a first for me. Up until now all of my legged projects have received tapered octagonal legs. For these chairs though, I wanted a leg that leaned a little more toward mid-century modern/Danish. So a simple tuned leg with a very slight taper along its length towards the floor. The legs went pretty quickly. I managed to get almost two per evening after getting home from work. Continue reading
I assembled the remaining three stools and added the texture and wood burning as with the first. There were a couple of folks with questions regarding the order of assembly, so I thought I would go over that a little here. Continue reading
Well, its time to tackle a chair. For my first chair you would think that I would opt for a proven and well documented design. Nah, where is the fun in that?
I’ve been kicking around an idea for a while now. Sort of a mix of Mid-Century/Danish and traditional vernacular (staked) chairs. A chair with no seat carving or steam bending, but still comfortable, strong and, hopefully, attractive. A chair made with easily sourced material. Continue reading
With the legs at the ready, I moved on to tackle the seats. The seats are from a construction grade SYP 2×12. When working with construction lumber, you have to really plan ahead and possibly get a little creative in order to end up with something decent. I’m not opposed to having knots in my projects, but the trick is to keep those knots out of the joinery areas. After a little trial and error I hade four usable slabs and a decent piece that may end up as a bench. Continue reading
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