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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...

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...

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...

Now that all of the main chair components are fitted (minus the free-floating backrest), I can begin shaping the pieces to their final form.  I sta...

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...

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...