chair

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

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...

With the mortises complete, I put a 1/8" edge round-over on most of the parts and sanded them all smooth.  It's easier to get this done prior to as...

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...

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...

The secondary stretchers separate the main front and back stretchers and complete the seat frame.  The next step in the project is to get those sec...

[Note: I am in a process of moving from Lumberjocks, this a blog series I started in 2014] This blog describes the long process of designing and ma...

While the edges of the backrest parts were still square, I cut the mortises for the dominos.  Ganging the rails together made a self-supporting str...

Most of the pressure-treated scraps from my deck skirting project were pretty narrow - around 1-1/8" wide.  Most of the blanks needed for the chair...

My last pair of blanks are for the armrests.  I started by planing them down to 5/8" thick, which is the final thickness for rear of the armrest.  ...

Simultaneously aligning all 4 components of a side assembly gave me fits.  Very slight errors in length and/or angles meant that as I sequentially ...

I completed the remaining stretcher mortises in the two pair of front legs and trimmed the outline on the test stretcher.    [20241124-IMG_9577.jpg...