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Hans Wegner's "Bukkestolen" #21: Completing a Chair
Ross Leidy
Before I started weaving the backrest, I made a final check on the cords-per-inch with the actual cord I would be using. It turns out my original...
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A Frankenchair #2: Prototyping a Base
Ross Leidy
With one of the salvaged shell sections selected, I worked on a number of overlapping tasks in repetitive iterations - looking at orientation, sea...
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Wegner inspired dining chair series #1: Laying out the project
Kaerlighedsbamsen
[Note: I am in a process of moving from Lumberjocks, this a blog series I started in 2014] This blog describes the long process of designing and ma...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #6: Side Assembly Glue-Up and Stretcher prep
Ross Leidy
With the mortises complete, I put a 1/8" edge round-over on most of the parts and sanded them all smooth. It's easier to get this done prior to as...
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Hans Wegner's "Bukkestolen" #9: Seat Frame Stretchers
Ross Leidy
The secondary stretchers separate the main front and back stretchers and complete the seat frame. The next step in the project is to get those sec...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #3: Glue-ups, Miters, and Tapers
Ross Leidy
Most of the pressure-treated scraps from my deck skirting project were pretty narrow - around 1-1/8" wide. Most of the blanks needed for the chair...
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Hans Wegner's "Bukkestolen" #13: Backrest Progress
Ross Leidy
While the edges of the backrest parts were still square, I cut the mortises for the dominos. Ganging the rails together made a self-supporting str...
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A Frankenchair #7: Some Shaping
Ross Leidy
For final fitting of the chair shell to the back stretcher, I spent some time sanding-down the rough fiberglass in that area. Eventually, the enti...
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A Frankenchair #8: Mounting Hardware
Ross Leidy
I've been kicking around ideas on how to fasten the chair shell to the stretchers, and I think I have the front mounting worked out. The shell do...
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Wegner-Inspired Deck Chair #4: Back Slat Mortising
Ross Leidy
This step is out of order compared to the actual sequence of the build, but it seemed to make sense to present it now. The back receives a set of ...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #2: Design and Approach
Ross Leidy
As with the other replica chairs I've made, it requires spending quite a bit of time looking at example photos from different angles in order to ma...
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Another Danish Modern Chair #5: Mortises
Ross Leidy
Simultaneously aligning all 4 components of a side assembly gave me fits. Very slight errors in length and/or angles meant that as I sequentially ...
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