Maloof inspired low back chair

[Igor Petrenko]

Black walnut.

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[Jeff Hamilton Jr.]

What a nice piece Igor! Great use of the grain on the seat!

Something to be well proud of.

[glenn bradley]

Very nice. Love the style and the wood.

[Brian Kent]

That is great. What finish? Really nice grain pattern.

[Sam Murdoch]

Lovely - and slippery looking too - hold on to your little kids or your tipsy uncle :D.

[Damon Stathatos]

I'd say you did really good on that chair. I sell the Maloof 'boys' ziricote and had been out there recently. I took pictures of all their finished ziricote pieces and thought that I would include a couple of them here for your reference. It's taken them a lifetime studying under a master to be able to produce this stuff and it is truly impressive. You should be very proud of your chair, you did a very good job on it.

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[Igor Petrenko]

Thank you!
The finish was wet sanding with BLO, then three soaks of BLO+poly+spirits and then shellac and 3 coats wiped of gloss poly+spirits. Maybe I'll wax it, haven't decided yet.
I have never built any chair before so with my first one went a little overboard complexity wise. Also it would help if I bought templates somewhere instead of scaling up rough drawings. Those armrests are my 3rd attempt because of complex angles, the first two sets are in firewood pile now.

[Mark R Davis]

Really nice Igor. I've always loved the way the one piece flows organically into the other at the joints in Maloof's (and Maloof inspired) work. There's a natural elegance to it.

[Doug Herzberg]

Very nice chair. I hope my first effort turns out so well.

[Bruce Page]

Beautiful work Igor!

[Kyle Stiefel]

Fine, fine work Igor. I actually had the pleasure of creating one similar a number of years ago.

[Jim Becker]

Really nice work, Igor!

[gary Zimmel]

That is one nice looking chair, Well done Igor.