Ross Leidy

I completed the remaining stretcher mortises in the two pair of front legs and trimmed the outline on the test stretcher.    [20241124-IMG_9577.jpg...

I can't really tell if the ends of the stretchers on the original chair had shoulders around the tenons or not.  I decided that I would use shoulde...

With the leg finger joints complete, I could trim the legs to their final shape.   This could have been done more quickly on the table saw with a p...

While I had been thinking about how to make the arms from the time I had started scheming to build this chair, by the time I got to this point, I s...

I think that the row of finger joints between the arm and leg is a perfect example of honest design.  The joint provides incredible strength to the...

In this project, I'll be building a pair of chairs modeled after Hans Wegner's, "Bukkestolen", which he designed for Johannes Hansen in 1959. Weg...

The panel is done, but since it is a piece of another project, the final panel photos are a bit anti-climactic.   The panel received a couple coats...

After 4.5 hrs in the press, this is what greeted me when I pulled-out the panel.  At first I thought the ripples were the result of too much glue, ...

I just had a few steps to get the panel ready for glue-up.    Finishing the border: [20240413-IMG_9024.jpg] [20240413-IMG_9031.jpg] Applying the ...

Before tackling the remaining steps on the large panel, I made a small test panel to experiment with.  I didn't really have a plan for the layout, ...

I shifted the cutting mat down to work on the bottom portion and put the whole thing on top of some salvaged plywood shelves for full length suppor...

Just some more progress photos as I completed the upper right quadrant. [20240329-IMG_8956.jpg] [20240329-IMG_8957.jpg] [20240330-IMG_8958.jpg] [2...