Windsor Finally

[Larry Rose]

After three months and several starts and stops and losing my religion I finally finished this chair. I broke the arm once and drilled a hole wrong twice but its over. This was my second one. Now LOML wants more.

 

[dancam]

Larry,

Your chair is beautiful. I know how hard a Windsor is to build. I took a class w/Mike Dunbar up in New Hampshire and over a full week we built an armed Windsor. It was a humbling experience but well worth it.

I subsequently built 8 more to make a complete dining room set for ourselves. I used a five step finishing process.

• Sand, stain and rub down with 3M pad
• 1st coat Barn Red Milk paint (Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co., Groton, MA) and then scuffed up w/3M pads...pick areas for wear and scuff till you see stain,
• 1 coat crackle medium (I used Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co., Crackle medium), only brush it on areas where you want crackle,
• 2nd coat of Black Milk paint and scuff again with the 3M pad,
• After the paint thoroughly dried I put a coat of Watco clear and followed with buffed paste wax after the Watco dried.

 

[DavidF]

That's a fine looking chair and a completed project you can be proud of:eusa_clap Any completed project is a good one:lol: :lol: As for the others?? Just say no.......

 

[DaveO]

Beautiful chair, and your finish (Milk Paint?) makes it look like it is 100 years old already :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
As someone's sig. line says "Antiques made while you wait" :lol: :lol:
Dave

 

[Larry Rose]

Yes it is milk paint with a Minwax Antique Oil finish. I haven't waxed it yet as I like to make sure the finish is compleatly cured. I usualy wait 2 or 3 weeks. This was one of those projects that everything seemed to go wrong on and I was too far along to scrap it and start over. Oh well I quess thats what keeps woodworking interesting.

 

[PurpleThumb]

Great looking chair, Larry. I don't care what kind they are, chairs are tough!!!

By the way, do you know of a guy about 65 from Ahoskie or Hertford named Jimmy Sullivan? He was a kicker(punter) on the NCSU football team. He was in the room next to mine our freshman year.

 

[Larry Rose]

Jerry, I looked in the area phone book and the closest I could find was a James Sullivan in Elizabeth City about 50 miles from here.

 

[walnutjerry]

Congradulations Larry!! Glad you stuck it out and finished the chair. Not many worthy things in this world come easy. That chair is worthy:icon_thum .
Had you taken a class with someone? It is a little tougher without the insight of the experienced.

The next 6 or 8 will be a little easier on your religion:rolf: . You will remember what not to do. Good luck with them---------keep marching on.

Jerry

 

[jeff...]

Wow - nice :icon_thum

 

[cskipper]

That's great!

 

[4yanks]

Nice looking chair.

 

[cpowell]

Well, Larry, it looks like the trip was worth it. The end result looks beautiful. :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

Chuck

 

[Larry Rose]

Jerry, no class was available here in the sticks. I just did a lot of reading and cussing. Actually I gave up on my first attempt and trashed it. The second was a little easier and I don't know what happened on this one. I've started gathering the materials for the next one. Maybe it'll be easier still.

 

[skeeter]

Awesome chair.

 

[PurpleThumb]

Thanks Larry, I may try that one. I kept in touch with some of the guys but not Jimmy.