A few weeks ago, my recliner started acting up on me. The foot rest started hanging up. I decided to build myself a new chair. Since most of my furniture is Mission/arts-and-craft style, I decided to build a Morris chair with curved arms. I have always wanted to bend and laminate wood for a project so this was the obvious choice.
First, I made a bending jig from some scrap plywood and MFD.
Next I resawed the wood to 3/16, sanded, glued and clamped my lamination to the jig, with wax paper between jig and wood.
Each arm cured for 24 hours. While this was happening, I laid out all joints for mortise & tennons.
Cutting joints was next.
Now the arms have dried and are ready to be edged and sanded.
So now is the time for a dry fit. Put everything together on one side of chair and clamped in place. I propped the clamped side up against my old plastic garage chair and noticed how low the new chair was. I don't usually use plans on my projects, so I guess I was paying too much attention to the measurements and not enough to what the chair looked like. I knew this low bottom would not work with my bad knees, so I rebuilt everything but the arms. making the chair bottom higher. This is where I forgot about the WIP photos and just went on with the chair. (I get distracted easily.)
Chair is at upholsterers having the cushions made. I'll post picture of finished product when it comes back.
First, I made a bending jig from some scrap plywood and MFD.
Next I resawed the wood to 3/16, sanded, glued and clamped my lamination to the jig, with wax paper between jig and wood.
Each arm cured for 24 hours. While this was happening, I laid out all joints for mortise & tennons.
Cutting joints was next.
Now the arms have dried and are ready to be edged and sanded.
So now is the time for a dry fit. Put everything together on one side of chair and clamped in place. I propped the clamped side up against my old plastic garage chair and noticed how low the new chair was. I don't usually use plans on my projects, so I guess I was paying too much attention to the measurements and not enough to what the chair looked like. I knew this low bottom would not work with my bad knees, so I rebuilt everything but the arms. making the chair bottom higher. This is where I forgot about the WIP photos and just went on with the chair. (I get distracted easily.)
Chair is at upholsterers having the cushions made. I'll post picture of finished product when it comes back.
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