Well today was scary-more on that later.
Here's where the legs were as of Sunday eve.
Here's the amount on material that I took out Monday(in white):
One note here: In class I turned my legs rough - now this was the 1st time I had ever turned ANYTHING and frankly they didn't turn out that well, so I also re-profiled and tapered my legs as follows:
and here's what they look like ready to be glued into the seat:
But 1st I had to finish profiling and sanding the seat-once the legs start to go in, it gets harder and harder to manipulate:
What we're going for here is nice crisp lines outlining the seat and no bumps on any of the surfaces. This sounds easier than it is, and quite frankly I did my best for this one, but we'll see when the stain goes on later(But now I'm getting waaaay ahead of myself)
So, now that the seat's ready we've got to drill the legs and seat for the screws-and HERE'S WHERE IT GOT SCARY!
The 1st part was easy:
In class we all got a taste of how HARD sapele is-now I was ready for this, but for the front legs I am using 2 1/2 long screws. I've had really bad experiences with screws breaking on my miter saw station so I invested in some good quality square drive screws. I also pre-drilled the correct pilot holes and even pre-drilled a test screw, but STILL the sound that these screws made when driving into the joint was like TORTURE. Every turn I was afraid the head was going to pop off. I got lucky though.
So now I'm ready to glue the front legs into the seat:
and here's the final result for today:
Tomorrow it's on to finishing the back legs and the arms and hopefully getting those 2 glued into the seat:eusa_pray.
:BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:clamps-clamps-why do I never have enough clamps
Here's where the legs were as of Sunday eve.
Here's the amount on material that I took out Monday(in white):
One note here: In class I turned my legs rough - now this was the 1st time I had ever turned ANYTHING and frankly they didn't turn out that well, so I also re-profiled and tapered my legs as follows:
and here's what they look like ready to be glued into the seat:
But 1st I had to finish profiling and sanding the seat-once the legs start to go in, it gets harder and harder to manipulate:
What we're going for here is nice crisp lines outlining the seat and no bumps on any of the surfaces. This sounds easier than it is, and quite frankly I did my best for this one, but we'll see when the stain goes on later(But now I'm getting waaaay ahead of myself)
So, now that the seat's ready we've got to drill the legs and seat for the screws-and HERE'S WHERE IT GOT SCARY!
The 1st part was easy:
In class we all got a taste of how HARD sapele is-now I was ready for this, but for the front legs I am using 2 1/2 long screws. I've had really bad experiences with screws breaking on my miter saw station so I invested in some good quality square drive screws. I also pre-drilled the correct pilot holes and even pre-drilled a test screw, but STILL the sound that these screws made when driving into the joint was like TORTURE. Every turn I was afraid the head was going to pop off. I got lucky though.
So now I'm ready to glue the front legs into the seat:
and here's the final result for today:
Tomorrow it's on to finishing the back legs and the arms and hopefully getting those 2 glued into the seat:eusa_pray.
:BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:clamps-clamps-why do I never have enough clamps