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Final chair update. When last we left I had rushed ahead getting one chair glued up, with 15 pieces left to shellac and wax.
The last three chairs were uneventful. I changed my process slightly, to allow the wax to cure for 24 hours before clamps, and then I only left the clamps on for 1 hour. This prevented the finish from being damaged at all. My daughter had a great time handing me rags, and helping to wipe off the squeeze out. The few places we missed just pealed right off the waxed finish after they had dried. So yay! Then she helped screw the seat bottoms on which she also enjoyed.
Final shot of all 4 completed chairs, as well as them around my already cluttered table. Space Empires 4X: All Good Things finally showed up, you'll have to forgive me. I was able to give them a solid test spin on Saturday, playing another game of Hands in the Sea. I was barely cognizant I was sitting in anything, which is always the sign of a comfortable chair, which was the last thing I was concerned about. Who wants to spend 6 months making a set of chairs only to realize they aren't comfortable to sit in for a prolonged period of time?
Complete album of the project for those interested.
This project was definitely a marathon that tested my ability to stay motivated. But something about having a shop that only has room for one project, as well as having dumped some cash money into the lumber for it made it the sort of thing I felt obligated to finish, come hell or high water.
Very nice. Are you a cross-stretchers-for-legs sceptic? I have no position, just curious.
I finished my headphones, they turned out surprisingly okay. Not great, could certainly make a better and quicker job if I did it again, but more than serviceable enough to not want to do a better job and better than I had any reason to expect given it was my first attempt at an experiment made with leftovers. Unfortunately I've lost all my photos after my phone decided that booting up was no longer to its tastes.
Well, there weren't any in the plans I used as a base, so I didn't add any. But also none of the chairs in my house have any, and they've held up fine over the years. My intuition is that with the seat back being so stiff, and also the fact that people generally scoot chairs forward and backwards, not side to side, cross stretchers didn't seem necessary. But I suppose should I ever discover I'm wrong, I can probably hack them in. Probably just cave and use a pocket hole screws.
That's too bad. Can still share a pic of the finished product. They sound cool.
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