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1. 
   daverichards | Jul 09, 2008 08:55pm | #1

   This might be a stretch but could you find an old, used one and use it for patterns? Even one that isn't complete could work for that.

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   nazard | Jul 10, 2008 12:54am | #2

   M,

   Is "banker's chair" an oak swivel arm chair?  If so, having just refinished an old junker for my wife, Dave's suggestion for using an existing chair for templates is certainly valid.  Without a full scale mock-up, getting all the angles for cutting and drilling correct would be a NIGHTMARE running in overtime.

   Best!

   -nazard

3. 
   oldusty | Jul 10, 2008 02:51am | #3

      m,

       Seems I've seen a few old ones that were upholstered with a dark leather .

              Wood showing and upholstery , is it similar ?

                    dusty

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   m71 | Jul 10, 2008 06:12am | #4

   yeah similar to this one.

    

   http://www.everythingofficefurniture.com/ofchofst10de2.html

    

   or this one.

   http://www.potterybarn.com/products/p8169/index.cfm?pkey=xsrd0m1%7C20%7C%7C%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7C%7Clibrary&cm%5Fsrc=SCH

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   user-6461081 | Nov 13, 2016 09:31pm | #5

   Barrister's or Bankers Chair

   I also was looking for a set of plans and after much looking I have elected to reverse engineer a set in autocad that is almost complete.  I do need to mock up the angles where the back legs meet the seat, but I should have them complete in a couple of weeks.  Would you like a pdf version of the drawings?  They will not be exact since they were created using ratios of observable part, but I think they will be useable for our purpose.  You do understand the bottom bracing of the seat and the back will have to be either steam bent or laminated.

   Jim

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   Amellom | Jan 28, 2018 08:49pm | #6

   I've been trying in vain to find the same type of plan myself  My interest comes from my grandmother's old bankers chair I pulled out of the trash years ago. It had come apart in all it's individual parts and had been assembled with dowels .

   I was about 15 at the time so I didn't know much about clamping and so on. I glued it back together and it lasted maybe a year before my nieces and nephew finally destroyed it and someone finally pitched it out when I was away . Probably thousands were made back around the turn of the 20th century so the plans must exist somewhere ,but finding them has proven elusive to say the least .