Writing arm chair

Re: Writing arm chair

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

Jack, that is beautifully shaped. Slim and graceful. Will you say which wood(s) you used, a little on how you shaped the parts, and how you plan to finish it? Not a lot to ask I aspire to build chairs like this!

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Writing arm chair

Wiley Horne

That is amazingly beautiful, Jack!

Derek spoke about slim members—so true, and yet I have been using (and sometimes abusing) one of Jack’s chairs for many months now. Been through all the seasons twice I think. And that chair is the tightest, strongest chair I have ever known. There is zero play anywhere. Tight like a tuning fork.

Jack truly knows how to make a chair.

Wiley

Re: Writing arm chair

Jack Guzman from Maine

Thanks Wiley,I was wondering how those chairs were holding up.

Re: Writing arm chair

Jack Guzman from Maine

Derek,

The legs,stretchers,arm,crests spindles are all ash. I dropped a tree and I'm using up all the useful wood I can get out of it. Red oak would be my second choice for these parts. The seat is white pine as is the paddle and the drawer sides. The drawer fronts are walnut. You can maybe see the under seat drawer. I rive and shape spindles and rails with drawknife and spokeshave. Legs and stretchers are turned from green riven blanks. I will paint it with milk paint. Not sure about color yet but I will cover that with oil/varnish wipe-on finish.

Dang it, Jack

Bruce, a MN Galoot

You do really nice work! And to think you learned that from Curt Buchanan’s videos.

Looks GREAT!!!

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Kevin Adams

Great chair, as always, Jack! I have a sack back rocker with high crest to still finish myself. I like seeing pics of your shop, too, looks like a great space to make chairs.

Thanks for sharing.

Kevin

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John Jardin

Jack, This is a beautiful chair and a testament to your craftsmanship. You know that I'm just getting started on my Windsor chair, and this beauty is just the motivation that I need.

I nominate Jack as Chairman

Joe shelton

...of the Windsor Subset of WC Hand Tools.

I've followed his posts carefully since one he did about his rig for steam bending, and there is terrific motivation in his revelations.

Jack, I can only see seven (or maybe eight) drawknives in that picture. Can you work with that few?

You can't have too many drawknives

Jack Guzman from Maine

I have a few more than what you see. I have three or four I use all the time but when I see a decent drawknife in a bucket of rusty tools I can't resist it.

Design question

Joe Fleming

Jack, I have a design question. You have two nodes on the chair legs. What are the diameters of the upper nodes and lower nodes respectively?

thanks

Joe

Re: Design question

Jack Guzman from Maine

1 5/16" -1 9/16". Center section is 7/8"

Re: Writing arm chair

Philip F Duffy

That is a beauty, Jack! Are you planning on any carving on the wings of the back? Either way its a heritage piece. Phil

Re: Writing arm chair

Jack Guzman from Maine

No. Maybe a later version of the chair. This one is a prototype. I had to build it to figure out how.

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Don Stephan

Beautiful chair. Very jealous of your skills.

Will you have a model for someone ambidextrous? Sorry, couldn't control myself.

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Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

I like to look at chairs others build. Thanks for posting the chair and most of all a shop that looks like work goes on in it.

Re: Design question

Joe Fleming

thanks Jack

Another design question

Larry Barrett

Really nice chair, Jack. It looks like the wedge in the proper left front leg is at a different angle from the other three legs. Why is that?

screw-up

Jack Guzman from Maine

That wedge was a mistake. Before final assembly of the undercarriage I mark the locations of the wedges on the end of the tenons then take the legs out and saw the tenon to create a kerf for the wedge. I sawed the wrong mark. It was close enough not to split the seat so I went with it.