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   BossCrunk | Jul 26, 2006 02:33pm | #1

   http://www.furnituremakingclasses.com/Plans/chairs.html

   If you can build these chairs, you can build anything.

    

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   user-183168 | Jul 27, 2006 11:43am | #2

   I think you may be right, i was looking for a more contempary look as seen in http://www.pentlandfurniture.com.au 

   Thak you anyway

   Cheers

   Lee

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   BossCrunk | Jul 27, 2006 02:45pm | #3

   Build a Chippendale and then go from there.  Almost any chairmaker worth his salt does.  Blow off the carving if that doesn't turn you on, but shape the legs appropriately.  You need to learn to lay out and cut the compound angled mortise and tenon joint implied by the parallelogram seat  to canted rear leg arrangement.  This is a must.

   You're unlikely to find any 'how to build it' of Jere Osgood's and Robert William's work.

   The chairs pictured in the link you provided have a simple angled tenon which becomes extraordinarily easy if you learn the slightly more complicated compound angled tenon.

   I'll keep looking for a set of plans for a simpler chair - I've seen some somewhere.

   Edited 7/27/2006 7:47 am ET by BossCrunk

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   user-183168 | Jul 28, 2006 02:13am | #5

   Cheers you make a good point.

   I will have a go and let you know.

   Chheers

   Lee

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   John_D | Jul 27, 2006 11:19pm | #4

   Yeah, I like a simpler style like some modern or danish stuff.  We love the furniture we see at a store called Scan|Design (it's where we got our cherry dining room table).  I'm going to have to try to make some matching chairs, looking forward to it.  Might have only lighter people sit in 'em until I learn well. Heh.My goal is for my work to outlast me.  Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.

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   user-183168 | Jul 28, 2006 02:14am | #6

   Yeh i know what your saying cheers Lee

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   cadiddlehopper | Jul 28, 2006 03:53am | #7

   A suggestion: Shop around at thrift stores (maybe you call them something else) for an inexpensive chair that is comfortable for sitting & dining & similar to what you want. Buy it for use as a model for your own chairs. I just built 6 by partially copying an old chair that I owned. I made many changes, but seat height, slope, back angle, width, etc. were modeled from the existing chairs. My style is even simpler than Pentland's. All corners have a radius. Joints are mortise & tenon with very strong corner reinforcement under seats which are upholstered. Being a good draftsman, I had no trouble designing them with a CAD program. Simplicity of design helped make it easy, too. Most importantly, I built a prototype. LOL!Cadiddlehopper

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   user-183168 | Jul 28, 2006 03:57am | #8

   Thanks for the advice, why didnt i think of that.

   Cheers

   lee

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   cadiddlehopper | Jul 28, 2006 04:03am | #9

   I see that you are not busy at the moment. Anyway, you made me feel good that I may have been of service. Cheers!Cadid