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   UncleDunc | Feb 25, 2003 08:22am | #1

   You mean fully upholstered like a couch or an easy chair, but only from the bottom of the seat on up? I don't recall ever seeing anything like that.

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   weasel | Feb 25, 2003 10:23pm | #2

   I was thinking aboutsomething like this, with or without the arms.

   
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   Elcoholic | Feb 25, 2003 11:18pm | #3

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   weasel | Feb 26, 2003 04:31am | #4

   Hey John, you are not married to my wife too are you?   Nah, I think I got the long separated twin.

   I actually thought about taking on chair home on approval, doing some quick tracing and snooping and then taking the bugger back.  They want close to $1000. Canadian (I think that is about $1.75 US) for one chair but my mamma didn't raise any idiots (wait a minute I did get married).

   Weasel

   When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.

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   Elcoholic | Feb 26, 2003 08:02pm | #5

   I thought about that also but every part of the chair "we" liked was curved and the back slats were compound curves.  For the price of the chair I think it paid for itself in time savings on the 3 required laminating forms and pattern routing templates for the rest of the parts.  More importantly, it also insured that the chair was going to sit the same so I didn't need to make a protype for the wife and then go back to square 1 and do the run of 8.  Your situation is different because the chair is much more expensive and its upholstered.  Over the last two episodes Norm did an upholstered club chair not completely unlike the chair of your wife's desire.  A club chair is lower, wider and reclines more than a dining chair, but the plans might be a good place to start.  Armed (sorry) with Jeff Miller's Chair book you might have a fightin' chance.  The other suggestion I'd make is to hit the thrift and consignment shops and find a cheap chair.  Good luck and let us know how this plays out.  We all need tips on how to deal with what I call the "visualizationally impared", especially when were married to them.

   John O'Connell - JKO Handcrafted Woodworking

   Life is tough.  It's tougher if you're stupid - John Wayne

   Edited 2/26/2003 3:19:17 PM ET by ELCOHOLIC

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   weasel | Feb 27, 2003 08:54am | #6

   Thanks for the replies.  I have a feeling that I am going to end up doing this the hard way by banging together some mock-ups out of spruce.  Hopefully these will last lnog enough to take the load of my fat a** for some test runs (so to speak) and then set to work buiding a prototype when I get something that looks and feels reasonable.  I have spent a lot of time looking for plans on the net.  The next place is the library for a few books, starting with your recommendation. 

   Am I the only one out there who has felt sick when his wife starts looking at expensive furniture?  I always do things backwards: should have married one with beer taste and champagne money!

   Cheers

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   BG | Feb 27, 2003 07:43pm | #7

   John,

   I have a chair exactly like that sitting in the basement on top of the oil tank.  The cats ate the cover and it needs to be redone. I've been holding off because 1) we really have no space for it, and, 2) the cats are still around.  I'm wondering if you could not work out a deal with an furniture re-upholster (sp?).  

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   Oriole | Apr 07, 2003 06:41pm | #8

   This is a Martha Washington chair. There is a plan for this in a book called Classic Furniture Project, by A.W. Marlow. Oriole