Wood 'n' Soul

Here are some pix of a chair I’m rebuilding. I love building and fixing chairs. It is all art and engineering combined to make the perfect place to sit.

This is a dinning room chair - I’ll soon be working on it’s three siblings and the matching table. Once I start it will have to be a fast track project because the nice people who belong to the set will have no place to eat.

The shaving horse is a wonderful tool. Invented around the 17th century, it really hasn’t been improved on much at all since then. The bicycle inner tube around the stay is a bit on the modern side... The horse has a v-notch at the back and clamps to hold almost any shape for cutting or drilling or shaping. Every time I use it I marvel at its elegant simplicity and efficiency. There is no better tool for making chairs.



I was cutting notches for the pegs in the top of the legs.



This image shows all of the leg parts turned [legs, rungs and stretchers], but not yet sized.


This is the chair with its legs - not cut to length or runged.


I plan to have this one ready for finishing on Monday or Tuesday.

Still working on paint samples---sigh...

Have a great weekend - We’re all going to the Russian River Rodeo - Yeehhaaaa!