Morris Chair #1

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Bowed-arm Morris Chair and footstool made from rift and quartersawn white oak and finished with both water-based and oil stain; through mortise and tenon construction and leather upholstery; quartersawn bowed arms were laminated using vacuum bag kit for wooden skateboards; seat back length was increased 4 inches.   Chair design is first of two I've modified from plans.

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First and only woodworking project ever so far

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bmyyou writes: Thanks for the feedback guys; I enjoyed building these chairs but the finishing steps took seemingly forever.

WouldWorker,
I didn't make the leather cushions. We found a local upholsterer who works out of his garage shop and will either purchase leather or use the customer's leather. The chair shown is full size for my father-in-law, and I reduced the size by twenty percent so my version of the chair would fit in our living room! The leather came from Tandy leather - they have great prices periodically on single hides because there are no duplicates, and I needed about 62 square feet; the hide I found was 66 square feet, very good quality, and on sale for $1.19 a square foot. The labor charge for all the upholstery including the footstool was about $229. Tip: check with some of your local antique and consignment shops to possibly find a favored upholsterer; the regular upholstery shops wanted 2.5 times that much for the work.
Posted: 12:45 am on July 9th

Jurgen01 writes: A great-looking chair. The leather upholstery looks really nice. I'll bet it is comfortable, too.

Well done!
Posted: 3:15 pm on July 8th

mokusakusensei writes: Nice job. I did one similar but was not smart enough to extend the back as you did. That is the only thing that I dislike about the chair. When I brought it into the house my wife said: "It's too big for me to sit in". I replied: "Well, there ya go!"
Posted: 12:17 pm on July 8th

WouldWorker writes: Very nice. Did you make the leather cushions? (The price of those alone would be around $400 in a custom upholstery shop.)
Posted: 7:37 am on July 8th

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