All, I am starting work on building two American Armchairs that I found in a Lester Margon book about 18 years ago while I was building two chairs out of Furniture of the Pilgrim Century by Wallace Nutting.
I will hopefully attach the drawing and need to get some opinions about a few items.
The drawing says the chair is Maple and Ash.............I have already started with the front legs being of maple and will be moving on to the rear which will also be of maple. I am not sure about the remainder? Should all of the rest be Ash or would it only be the back of the seat?
I also need to find out what way some of you would split or flatten the turnings in the back rail?
I am thinking that I might be able to turn them about 1/8 inch bigger than required and then carefully run them thru the band saw thereby getting 8 out of four turnings.................any comments?
I will hopefully attach the drawing and need to get some opinions about a few items.
The drawing says the chair is Maple and Ash.............I have already started with the front legs being of maple and will be moving on to the rear which will also be of maple. I am not sure about the remainder? Should all of the rest be Ash or would it only be the back of the seat?
I also need to find out what way some of you would split or flatten the turnings in the back rail?
I am thinking that I might be able to turn them about 1/8 inch bigger than required and then carefully run them thru the band saw thereby getting 8 out of four turnings.................any comments?