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A Frankenchair #3: A Curvier Approach
Ross Leidy
I spent a lot of time online looking at images of mid-century modern chairs looking for inspiration for the base. I kept coming back to this recli...
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A Frankenchair #6: Back Stretcher
Ross Leidy
The back stretcher will be rotated 39 degrees (roughly) from vertical to allow it to be joined at the thick part of the leg and will be wide enough...
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A Frankenchair #1: An Inspired Moment?
Ross Leidy
The previous owner of our house installed a hot tub 25-30 years ago, and I was able it keep it going for the last 10 years we've own it with practi...
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A Frankenchair #4: Front Stretcher Design
Ross Leidy
To me, a chair stretcher doesn't seem like something that ought to require a lot of design work, but I managed to spend 3 days trying to work out s...
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A Frankenchair #5: Front Stretcher Mortises
Ross Leidy
I'll be using a pair of Dominos at each end of the stretcher to join the stretcher to the leg assemblies. With the stretcher clamped in position, ...
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A Frankenchair #2: Prototyping a Base
Ross Leidy
With one of the salvaged shell sections selected, I worked on a number of overlapping tasks in repetitive iterations - looking at orientation, sea...
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