chair

Except not "finished."  I should say, it's functional. I did the test lacing with the chair on the floor.  That was a bit hard on my back.  I got ...

With the leg finger joints complete, I could trim the legs to their final shape.   This could have been done more quickly on the table saw with a p...

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...

In this project, I'll be building a pair of chairs modeled after Hans Wegner's, "Bukkestolen", which he designed for Johannes Hansen in 1959. Weg...

Because my seat frame components are probably not quite as thick as those in the original, I compensated by making mine slightly wider an limiting ...

I still need to do some shaping and sanding of the legs and arms before they'll be ready for glue-up, but I took some time to work out how to clamp...

Now that the main chair frame is nearly done, I can move on to the independent backrest frame.  I started by creating another template to define th...

Well, finished without finish, but structurally complete.  Here's the completed chair next to the deck skirting from whence it came. [20221016-1G6X...

With all the last minute shaping and sanding complete, everything was ready for the final glue-up.  There's not really a whole lot to show here.  I...

I think that the row of finger joints between the arm and leg is a perfect example of honest design.  The joint provides incredible strength to the...

(Originally posted in October 2022) In the summer of 2022, I started a project to replace the skirting around the perimeter of my deck using 5/4 p...

I can't really tell if the ends of the stretchers on the original chair had shoulders around the tenons or not.  I decided that I would use shoulde...