I’ve been carrying these 5 sticks of Alder around for the last 9-10 years. Today I’m finally rid of them, having found their purpose. #letsmakeatable
Chairs are finished and just about ready for delivery. Just letting the varnish cure a couple@more days to ensure they’re fully cooked and ready for some time on the clients deck.
And this white oak from @horizonwoodhwp is absolutely amazing. I knew this set was going to have some stunning figure and grain, but wow! Take a look at the seat in the last pic and drool. I’m so glad we opted to pursue this set of chairs to all come from the same log, definitely worth the effort.
Finally warmed up enough to spray the dining chairs. Hopefully the weather holds so I can get another 2 coats on over the weekend. If all goes well, these should be out for delivery sometime next week!
Things are about to get a lot quieter and cleaner in the shop now. My new @harveywoodworking G-700 Gyro Air dust collector is in place and fits perfectly in this reworked corner of the shop.
A side note to the people over at Harvey. As this is my second G-700 (I installed one at my old day job), kudos on ditching the old bolts and nuts you originally had tying the DC to the pallet. I had to cut those out on the first one with a saws all because they were so damaged by the forklifts. Which lead me to my only recommendation...beef up your freaking pallet! On each of my deliveries, the skids were broken and hanging loose, requiring adding some 2x4 to the blocking in order to tie it all together, just to get it in the building. Let alone the poor freight driver who is fighting the 400+lbs on a broken pallet in the back of his truck. Plywood is great for the deck, but everything under it needs a serious rework! Plywood skids will never hold up to a forklift driver working at top speed to load and unload trailers.
Had to make some room for a new addition to the shop. So while waiting on some fresh finish to arrive for the chairs, I’m using the down time to turn this cluster of a corner into something better. Should be ready for delivery on Monday now.
Sizzle sizzle. Branding the chairs prior to assembly and finishing.
Seats are ready to fume. Now to crank the heat in the shop and by this time tomorrow everything will be ready for final assembly and finish!
The new router process to hog out most of the waste on the carved seats is a winner. On previous chairs I was averaging 3-4 hours from seat blank to finished seat ready for final sanding. The new process has cut this down to about 1.5-2 hours.
When matching stock up I took some chances on a few pieces that had bark inclusions that I had hoped would carve out. Unfortunately they ran a bit deeper than I was comfortable carving out. So my alternative was to add a couple of butterfly’s. Thankfully this client will love them.
Method to my madness. After carving a couple of seats via different manners in the past, I’m turning to my router to hog out as much of the waste as I can. Each line indicates the center of the bit I’m using and the colors indicate the depth of cut. After the first round of cuts I’m thinking I may have a winning process until I get my cnc up and running.
Seat blanks are glued up. Now to get to the carving. This guy is going to be a head turner when it’s finished.
The reason why you don’t buy mass produced furniture. You miss out on small details like this grain that flows with the curve of the chair back rest.
I’ve gotten tired of trying to decipher the numbering of parts on my builds. Instead of hunting for marker/pencil/chalk marks that have faded or rubbed off, I’ve started stamping part numbers and orientation into the hidden end grain. It’s proven to be such a time saver when it comes to assembly.
Chair legs start as 1 piece, 42” long x 5” wide and 1-5/8” thick. When done, I’ll have 1 back leg and a matching front leg. All told we’re looking at 12 separate cuts just to get to the legs (not counting sizing the original blank).
Putting the new chair rear leg jig to work.
And to make it in under the 1 min mark, the video is sped up to 2x speed.