Hey guys, i’m keen on attempting this chair, most looks pretty achievable but I’m not quite sure on the best way to do the rounded corner pieces. Bending on such a tight radius I imagine is not an option and not sure I could achieve that shape and width cut out of a slab. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Those are cut out of a slab. The key to the build is to buy your lumber the thickness of the WIDTH of the chair legs, not boards the thickness of the chair legs. You'll resaw out the legs, and you'll cut the curves with the grain running on a diagonal (point-to-point) through the curves. The sweet thing is that a really thick flatsawn board turns into quartersawn lumber for the legs
If you zoom in you'll see the telltale grain circles on the outside of the curved parts. I would assemble with M&T or with dominoes made from the same stock.
Might be (much) more work, but the corners could be cut from two narrower slab pieces instead of one thicker one.
Thanks guys I will see if I can find lumber thick enough. Any ideas as to what wood has been used?
Almost certainly walnut.
Looking at that chair, the arms are almost 4 inches across and the corner pieces were probably glued up from 2 inch thick stock. The shitoyance on the nearest corner and the bookmatch gives it away.
Basically what they did was get an 8 inch wide, 2 inch thick board, rip it down the middle and glue the two faces together to create that effect. This gives a 4 x4 which is by no coincidence perfect for getting that exact part.
I stand corrected. Rob_SS is right, I misread the grain on that corner. I would still look for the thick lumber, but that chair's corners are glued up.
Thanks so much for the information, can’t wait to tackle the build. I thought it may be two slabs laminated together but couldn’t be sure. I’ll post some pics when I’m done.
I've got plans to make one too since you showed it - looks cool!
Best of luck with the build. For me looking at the wood requirements it seems like a lot of waste to cut the chair supports out of a single or even multiple pieces of wood. If I was trying to reproduce the design, I would explore Baltic birch ply. It would leave lots of scrap for fixtures and jigs. BTW, I am currently working with BB ply and find it ahh, interesting.
After enlarging the image I noticed 2 visible round holes on the inner surface of the right arm. I assume they allow the chair back angle to be adjusted. My question is how is the "dowel" piece retracted and re-engaged into the hole? I don't see any obvious mechanism.
Any ideas?
Probably just a loose peg like on a Morris chair. Sorta like a round bench dog.
I see each rectangle made of 4 straight pieces and 4 corner blocks with the grain running at 45 degrees. I would cut the inside radius of each corner block and assemble the entire rectangle with floating tenons and then band saw away the external radius, that will enable the use of pipe clamps during the glue-up.
Very smart process.
Fascinating. Perfectly vague spam.
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