re: High-Back Chair - 1st Prototype

Jim:

If there is one altruistic purpose for contributing to a forum, it would be sharing cheats, and tricks, and traps. I can’t begin to chronicle all that I’ve learned from other woodworkers, on many woodworking sites. It takes two or more to share, though.

For the mirrored dadoes, the Teak is simply too tough to use hand tools.

Another design element, just to mention it, is that the Crest Rail has a double arc: front-to-back, and top-to-bottom (the sides are lower than the center-peak); both of which match the radius on the Transition Block. Hal Taylor often refers to this as repetition of form that is invisible to the eye… if done well. Maybe some day, when I grow-up, I’ll make something in Hal’s class.

You Take Care of yourself.
Mike