Another chair

[danmart77]

I'm not sure of where my next white pine log will come from?? It has been a hot summer here in Durham and I am behind my schedule these dayss

Dan

A simple side chair to go around the table at home. I make these to sell and they are very popular with the folks I build them to use;

 

[jpaul]

Having never build a chair, I would think they are among the hardest things to do. At least to do correctly, and it looks like you do it very correctly. Nice work!

 

[drw]

Dan, your chairs are never just "another chair"...they are always examples of outstanding craftsmanship!

 

[Gene Turner]

I have two of Dan's chairs and they are in use every day. Love them.

 

[Claus]

Very nice. I’m always impressed by your chairs. Would you share a bit of your process? What’s your preferred way to carve the seats?

Thanks,
Claus

 

[danmart77]

Very nice. I’m always impressed by your chairs. Would you share a bit of your process? What’s your preferred way to carve the seats?

Thanks,
Claus

I use any method around me to removve the bulk of stock on the seats. In the past I used a foot adze I had from the days of timber framing. Then I got used to large gouges to hog out the bulk. At other times I used an angle grinder with a disk "Lancelot" to quickly carve out the excess wood.

I used to feel handcuffed to all hand tools for years but when I started making chairs for univesities I used some power to move it along.

" Don't work on wood that won't be there when its done" Wallace Gusler from CW

Dan

 

[Skillet]

Nice work! Do you use pine for entire chair, or something else for legs and spindles?

 

[danmart77]

Only the seat. Legs are maple, spindles oak and bendings oak or ashe these days, Most of the wood is from a log - only the seat is from cut lumber.

 

[danmart77]

Just read another member frustrated by having to "duplicate" a part for a project. My first thought is: if they are not close together, your eyes don't see the small differnces. I turn legs by the hundreds by eye and memory and a caliper for size. Look at the chair in the other post I made and it is not apparent to the viewer the turning differences that are obvious when separated. Do your best and it will come. In my case I had to stop scraping at the lathe and that was a major improvement in my resuls. As always, keep the tools sharp and touch them up as you go.

 

[Mike Davis]

People are so afraid of being criticized because so many are cruel in their criticism when they couldn’t do half as well themselves. The true masters don’t tell beginners their work is not good enough- that it has to be perfect. You are absolutely correct! Close enough is great.