A Frankenchair

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1 An Inspired Moment?

The previous owner of our house installed a hot tub 25-30 years ago, and I was able it keep it going for the last 10 years we've own it with practi...

2 Prototyping a Base

With one of the salvaged shell sections selected, I worked on a number of overlapping tasks in repetitive iterations - looking at orientation, sea...

3 A Curvier Approach

I spent a lot of time online looking at images of mid-century modern chairs looking for inspiration for the base. I kept coming back to this recli...

4 Front Stretcher Design

To me, a chair stretcher doesn't seem like something that ought to require a lot of design work, but I managed to spend 3 days trying to work out s...

5 Front Stretcher Mortises

I'll be using a pair of Dominos at each end of the stretcher to join the stretcher to the leg assemblies. With the stretcher clamped in position, ...

6 Back Stretcher

The back stretcher will be rotated 39 degrees (roughly) from vertical to allow it to be joined at the thick part of the leg and will be wide enough...