A few pictures of 2 chairs I did recently.
The smaller one I did for my little lad it is made from one single ash log about 18 inches long and 13 inch diameter. The seat was split out of the centre of the log with wedge's and froe, effectively "1/4 sawn". It is influenced by the welsh spinning stools. Its the first chair I've made with a tail support for the comb, it was a bit tricky and a challenge to get all the hole angles right, especially as I did all the holes in the comb blind and not through morticed. I only fuked up right on the last tiny hole for the little oak fixing peg's on the comb, right at the end of the build didnt I, wrong angle almost ruined it got away with it though No glue or any other fastening other than wedged through tennons and tiny pegs on the comb. Some of the tennons were formed very quick and acurrate with a hollow auger, fantastic tool I just got one after looking around for a long while to get one.
The bigger chair is made of various bits of "roadside kill", coppice hazel, fire wood, butt end's, hedge trimming's, floor joists etc, I like the title for it crapp chair or rubbisch chair. I used square tennon's and mortice's in the seat for the first time on this one. It is an extremely stable and unbelievably comfortable chair. I am thinking of experimenting with a total black linseed painted finish on both chair's I rubbed down the bigger chair with wood ash and water, it makes a good prep for the linseed paint's. I sure enjoyed building them both.
If any one is interested I could do a series of photo's of the next chair as its made, I'm about ready to start making some of my own design's up.
cheers Jonathan
The smaller one I did for my little lad it is made from one single ash log about 18 inches long and 13 inch diameter. The seat was split out of the centre of the log with wedge's and froe, effectively "1/4 sawn". It is influenced by the welsh spinning stools. Its the first chair I've made with a tail support for the comb, it was a bit tricky and a challenge to get all the hole angles right, especially as I did all the holes in the comb blind and not through morticed. I only fuked up right on the last tiny hole for the little oak fixing peg's on the comb, right at the end of the build didnt I, wrong angle almost ruined it got away with it though No glue or any other fastening other than wedged through tennons and tiny pegs on the comb. Some of the tennons were formed very quick and acurrate with a hollow auger, fantastic tool I just got one after looking around for a long while to get one.
The bigger chair is made of various bits of "roadside kill", coppice hazel, fire wood, butt end's, hedge trimming's, floor joists etc, I like the title for it crapp chair or rubbisch chair. I used square tennon's and mortice's in the seat for the first time on this one. It is an extremely stable and unbelievably comfortable chair. I am thinking of experimenting with a total black linseed painted finish on both chair's I rubbed down the bigger chair with wood ash and water, it makes a good prep for the linseed paint's. I sure enjoyed building them both.
If any one is interested I could do a series of photo's of the next chair as its made, I'm about ready to start making some of my own design's up.
cheers Jonathan