I have begun work on a set of eight Windsor chairs – six bow back side chairs and two continuous arm chairs. They will later be accompanied by a lovely curly maple-top harvest table. Not my first full set of chairs, I am still dismayed by the amount of wood shavings generated by turning so many chair legs and stretchers, and from the shaving of so many red oak spindles. There are 68 turned parts and 76 shaved spindles, plus spares. And then there are the three stools…
Thus far I have managed to make all the turned parts, glued up the pine seat blanks, split, planed, and steam bend all the chair backs, and have begun squaring up the spindles, having split them out of the log. The next step will next to rough shape the spindles, kiln dry them, and then finish shaping. There is still a few weeks of work left before the chairs are all assembled and ready for painting.
