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Slant Lid Secretary and Thomas Jefferson Swivel Windsor Chair

comments (3) April 29th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

PineHillPrimitives PineHillPrimitives, member
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Made out of Tiger maple this secretary is a reproduction piece of one from the 18th century. It is finished with aniline dye Shellac, Glaze and a wax topcoat. The Jefferson Swivel is a replica of the one Jefferson designed and built in the 1770's and wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence in.


Design or Plan used: Matt Rushing/Craig Bentzley/Robert Whitley
posted in: Reader's Gallery, cabinet, period interpretation, dovetails, , wood turning, pine, maple, desk, shellac, poplar, oil, windsor chair, 18th century
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hamadal hamadal writes: goooooooood
Posted: 5:06 am on May 27th

PineHillPrimitives PineHillPrimitives writes: Its two chair seats the top being 23 1/8" dia. The bottom is smaller by how much angle the top has to it. and then I used a 6" lazy susan rated for 500 lbs routed it into the bottom seat and attached it to the top. It swivels perfectly. I made my original one just like Jeffersons with a central post welded to a square steel plate attached to the top seat and another steel plate attached to the bottom seat with a hole drilled all the way through the steel and through the seat. It worked ok but once you sat in it and tried to swivel it would rock just enough to bind up and cause to much drag. The lazy susan fixed the problem and I have been doing it that way ever since.
Posted: 7:06 pm on May 4th

danmart danmart writes: wondering what you did to make it a swivel seat?

dan
Posted: 5:24 pm on May 4th

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