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Designing a Ladderback Dining Chair
While we were working on our upholstered chair design, (a long and involved process, see previous post), Austin noticed the obvious: We could relatively quickly design a ladderback dining chair as a variation of the chairs we have already developed. … Continue reading
Designing an Upholstered Dining Chair, Part One
The last addition to our catalog of dining furniture was the Heflin Barstool. We developed it in response to requests for a barstool with a back — designed and built to our standards of comfort, style, and durability. It has … Continue reading
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Arms for Dining Chairs
To reach elbows and forearms, the tops of dining chair arms need to be about 9” above the seat. This puts the top of the arms about 27” off the floor. The clearance under the apron of a dining table … Continue reading
Mortising Seats for Splats
We cut the mortises in our chair seats with a plunge router. We use a guide bushing fastened to the router and a fixture clamped to each seat in turn. The splats have no shoulder; we have to precisely fit … Continue reading
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Fairing Arms to Back legs
“To fair” means to make a line or surface true to a curve–removing flat places, anomalies, and offsets. In boat and aircraft building a well-faired surface has less resistance to water or air than a carelessly produced one. In furnituremaking, … Continue reading
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Gluing Chair Seats
Our chair seats are always made of seven parts, doweled and glued together. When we are laying out the parts for chairs on the lumber, we select a board or portion of a board that will make eight, or more, … Continue reading
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Photos of the largest table we have built
We built a Mahogany trestle table, with a top 2 -1/2″ thick x 48″ wide x 16′ long. It was delivered in April. (See shopblog postings beginning with Starting a Custom Mahogany Table) The patron sent photos of it and … Continue reading
Assembling Splats to Seat
The splats that form the chair back must be precise. They must line up, creating a true and smooth, contoured surface to lean on, so you feel no edge, no flat, no lump. They must fit their individual mortises, showing … Continue reading
Matching Chair Parts
Wood of the same species can, and does, vary from tree to tree. The growth rate affects the figure displayed by the growth rings. The soil, exposure, and other factors of the site affect the color. Genetics create differences site-to-site, … Continue reading
Notching Back Legs of Chairs
The back legs of our chairs flare out at an angle of two degrees. This contributes to a look that I see as supple and flexible. There are many stiff and brittle looking chairs out there. To flare out at … Continue reading
Producing tenons on dining chair front legs
The front legs on our dining chairs pass through the seats and are wedged. To produce round tenons on these legs, we first cut square ones on the table saw to remove most of the wood. We have modified a … Continue reading
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