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Awesome job

I love the story – and I love “heavy” – to me, that means sturdy and long-lasting.

I’ve been making chairs for years and you have a great chair in the making. Looks strong. Nice mortise And tenon joinery What are you going to do for the seat ?

Beautiful work Mark.

I would say you are quite the woodworker Mark,I’ve been building cabinets , and furniture for almost 40 yrs (retiree ) and those chairs look nice to me from what I can see.I’ve made some trickier things in my day but sometimes chairs can be real tricky . Keep up the great work!! May we ask what all these are for ?

Great looking chairs you did well!

Thanks, I did forget to post the seats. They were the toughest part. I did some on the table saw with a dado blade, some with a grinder, and the rest with an orbital sander. The joints were all mortise and tenon, screwed, pegged, and glued. I’ve had to many joints self distructed over the years. Also, I drilled 1" holes in the bottom of the legs and put a piece of Delrin on all the legs. This allows the chairs to slide and not scratch the hardwood floors.

No your are not a carpenter but a good *furniture maker *.
These chairs a so well done that they reek of quality something that is becoming rare nowadays .
Hope to see more of your work soon .

Klaus

They are beautiful. Great work.

Very nice looking chairs. Fine chairmaking seems like a different sort of woodworking; a higher attention to detail and a patience to make multiple copies of something. These are really well done, great job!

Great looking Chairs.
I agree chair making is quite challenging.Depending on how deep you scoop out the seats I used a jig from popular Woodworking written by
Mario Rodriguez for more shallow scooping of seats or using a table saw and Dado blade approach taught by Charles Neil for deeper scooping .