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| The original chair with the walnut slab used to make the new chairs |
Although the chair is seductive simplicity in its purest form, the joints for the chair were anything but simple to make. Even the smallest error while cutting the curved components produced a sloppy looking joint.
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| The stretcher to leg joint was surprisingly difficult to cut |
But the chairs were well worth the effort. Beyond their beauty, the chairs are some of the most comfortable dining chairs I have ever sat in.
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| The completed chair |
I always built a spare chair (the understudy, if you like) when making chairs. This chair now sits in our dining room. When I walk through the house late at night the chair still catches my gaze and stops me in my tracks. I'll never tire of looking at it.
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| Chair detail |
Hi Karen, very neat chairs indeed. How did you get that fit so nice? I didn't realize till one of the last pics that the back slat was offset from the legs a bit. Neat feature.
ReplyDeleteI cut the mortices with my Domino and made my own tenons. The mortices were wider than my Domino would cut so I made a jig to accurately overlap two Domino cuts. The jig also helped register the Domino on the curved back of the chair. You only had one chance to make the correct cut because there was no correcting a mistake.
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