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7 June 2023 at 8:35 pm #803774
So much fun building the dining chair. I practiced making one out of pine. Learned a lot. It’s not perfect but it is “perfectly imperfect “! Now that I practiced on the pine I will try to do four all at once from red oak. I made a kitchen table for my daughter out of the same oak. The chairs will finish it up. One question I have. Should I just build one chair at a time or carry all four chairs through each step together? I am thinking that I want to do all four chairs at each stage going along with the videos. Thoughts? Attached is the table I built and the practice chair.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.8 June 2023 at 11:49 pm #803901My few pennies:
Working on 4 sets at a time of each of the sub-assemblies (back frame -posts, front frame, and side rails) allows for maximising the use of wood, simplifies dimensioning, and should – hopefully – keep the parts sufficiently stable. This approach should also reduce “creep” in dimensions, as one piece can serve as reference for its copies, and gauges can be kept set. As there will be repetitions of each operation, there can advantages from using guides, fixtures, and templates. Then – possibly – repetitions might improve outcomes. Finally, the risk of running out of clamps should be gone. [b]{Drawback}[/b]: At times it might feel like no progress at all is being made (having just completed 8 more or less congruent web frames.
Preparing every item for one Grande Finale gluing up does not work for me. The precision isn’t there, and available wood will mostly not stay stable after dimensioning.
Preparing and presenting one chair at a time is likely to provoke more or less polite questions from the customer on when remaining chairs will be delivered. The approach of sub assemblies not only deflect such, potentially unpleasant, inquiries; but also allows for pointing out that the importance of all four chairs looking the same, as to why “this will take some time” …
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