WOT... you expect me to sit on my rrrs and read all that stuff?... it'd go bum numb!
All jokes aside, Great job and dare I say, bloody GREAT wite up... now wasn't that better for you than telling us Aussies that your thermometer showed 75F° at 7:52pm last night? I even noticed you found that/those keys! Next you'll be queuing up at church next Sunday and have a 8 x 10 glossy picture of the Pope on the workshop wall.
The outcome was worthy of a concerted write up... why follows that adage BS about "old dogs".
As with bowls, I may never make one (chair), but I have filed this handy hint/procedure in my memory banks, safe from the affects of alcohol, for future other projects... I may have eventually stumbled across some sort of solution under similar circumstances, but this will give me time for another cask-o-vino between glue ups.... and you said you can't/don't teach.
Now off your rrs and make at least 3 more for the dinning table, or do you eat alone or make W' stand?
If your first cut is too short... Take the second cut from the longer end... LBD