Roorkhee Chair

Moving projects over from another site.
-original text-- June 2014 -------------------------------

I hadn't been out in my shop in years. In fact, finding my shop buried under stuff was a challenge but I was sort of going through wood sites and such and came across Chris Schwartz blog post on the Roorkhee Chair and suffered a case of the "I WANTS!"

So just about the time the magazine came out at the end of 2012, I excavated enough to get to my lathe and table saw and found a piece of walnut sitting ignored for, ahem, years. I bought the dowels (two have broken so I am going to turn some replacements) and the tenon cutters as the article recommended. I had read in one of his blog posts about him not feeling the need for the bottom let strap in the front and back so left that off. I need to go back and add that.

For the seat leather, I just used the natural hide that I oiled. I need to redo the arm straps and such but overall, it works fairly well and for not having made anything in the shop for years I am pretty happy with it.
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- Thoughts on the chair since I am updating things.

I like the chair overall. It is fairly comfortable, but with the difference in the rear and front seat rail height, I really want to make one with a flatter seat profile as it's hard to get out of as my knees are not functioning as they once did. It seems their warrantee has gone. My wife really likes hers. She sits in it and knits.

I made mine from the plans in the magazine. You can find plans from back issues of the magazine or the Campaign Furniture book
Resource links since I am transferring things and can add them. (and conveniently find them if I make a new one)
Tools to build a Roorkee chair
Roorkee Chair
Roorkee Leather Patterns
Correction on the Roorkee Chair in 'Campaign Furniture'
Roorkhee Chair: Updated Materials List
Strengthen the Roorkhee Even More