A Frankenchair

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...

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

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

For final fitting of the chair shell to the back stretcher, I spent some time sanding-down the rough fiberglass in that area.  Eventually, the enti...

I've been kicking around ideas on how to fasten the chair shell to the stretchers, and I think I have the front mounting worked out.   The shell do...

I used a 3/8" radius round over bit to shape the stretchers.  To avoid tear-out where cutting (nearly) end grain in some areas, I made multiple pas...