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Ross Leidy
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Another Danish Modern Chair #5: Mortises
Ross Leidy
Simultaneously aligning all 4 components of a side assembly gave me fits. Very slight errors in length and/or angles meant that as I sequentially ...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #4: Armrest recess
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As mentioned earlier, the armrest will fit into a 1/8" deep recess on the top of the arm. I made this router jig (from scraps) to use to cut the r...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #3: Glue-ups, Miters, and Tapers
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Most of the pressure-treated scraps from my deck skirting project were pretty narrow - around 1-1/8" wide. Most of the blanks needed for the chair...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #2: Design and Approach
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As with the other replica chairs I've made, it requires spending quite a bit of time looking at example photos from different angles in order to ma...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #1: Introduction
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On the heels of completing a second deck chair based on Wegner's GE-375 from pressure-treated decking, I still had some scraps left over. Enough f...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #10: Finished!
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Well, finished without finish, but structurally complete. Here's the completed chair next to the deck skirting from whence it came. [20221016-1G6X...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #9: Seat Frame Mounting
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The rear edge of the seat frame has 4 loose tenons glued in place. The protruding tenons dry fit into corresponding mortises in the rear stretcher...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #8: Arms
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The arms have a long taper from full 5/4" thickness at the rear down to about 1/2" at the front. I made a sled to hold the arm in place and elevat...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #7: Pillow Rail
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The Wegner chair has a pillow rail that fits into a channel at the top of each of the uprights. The rail slides through a head pillow sleeve, and ...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #6: Holes for Fasteners
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I made 3 variations of the jig for drilling the bolt holes in both the ends of the stretchers and into the side assemblies. The first one was just ...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #5: Seat Frame
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The visible front edge of the seat frame is a full 1" thick, but tapers to 3/4" thick on the back side. The sides and back of the frame are all 3/4...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #4: Back Slat Mortising
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This step is out of order compared to the actual sequence of the build, but it seemed to make sense to present it now. The back receives a set of ...
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