12 chairs

so, we're making some chairs ... 20 of them to be exact, for two different clients.  

12 with the danish cord seats, and 8 like the ones with the leather seats below ...

first up are the corded seats ..

trevor cuts most of these parts, including the shaped rear legs and 

the mortises for the rails and horizontals on the cnc ... and he has a couple of
specialized jigs for cutting the tenons on the ends of both the
curved pieces and the straight rails.

ditto on the front legs and rails ...

and then you've got your 'most expensive nails in the world',

or at least, close to it ... there are about 170 some per chair .. they come from denmark and there are over 400 bucks worth in these twelve chairs.

in the past, our seat weaver, sandy sherman chair caning in brookline,

vermont has added the nails after we delivered the chairs to her for cording.

we always predrilled the holes for  her with the cnc, and this time i 

had the bright idea of adding the nails before the chairs were glued up ... 

duh ... much easier this way then nailing them into a finished chair ... 

sandy appreciates that for sure ...

so, here they are ready to be glued up ...

 

which happens in a number of stages.  front legs and rails ..

rear legs, rails, and slats ... and finally front leg assemblies to back legs ...

they'll look like the ones below when they are finished ..

good to go below .. waiting for finish ...

and next up .. below  are all the parts but the back legs, roughed out
for the next 8, which will have leather seats.