Winter project

[craig carlson]

Hi,

I haven't tried to post a picture since the "Pond" please bear with me! This has been what I've been doing since February and now on to the table!

Craig
Sebastopol, Ca.

[Roger Barga]

The chairs look both beautiful and comfortable. Nice flowing lines in the chair frames and chair backs. How did you make them - from plans or did you design them yourself? Can't wait to see the matching table - care to share details on the design?

cheers,
roger

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Excellent work Craig! I like the design, wood and finish.

[Jalin Key]

Beautiful work Craig

[Bill Arnold]

Craig,

Great work! I really like the elegant, clean lines of your chairs. I'm also interested in seeing the design of your table.

Regards,

[Jeff Sudmeier]

Wow those are some great looking chairs! You have done a wonderful job on them.

[Jim Becker]

Beautiful, Craig. I really like the bookmatching on the splats!!

[Mark Singer]

Craig,

Very nice work! They look very comfortable. I like the attention to detail...!

[Alan Mikkelsen]

Gorgeous work and what a great use of bookmatching on the panels! I would love to see the table that goes with these, too.

[Effie Lever]

Great work Craig, but now that you got our attention you got to show us how you did this beautiful work.

[craig carlson]

Hi,

Thanks for the compliments. The wood is all cherry, the chairs and the soon to be table will total about 100 bd ft. The chair design came from an old Today's Woodworker magazine circa early 1990's. The center slats are made up of 8 pieces of veneer off of my band saw and them glued together on a bending form using a slow setting glue. All jointery is mortice and tenon. The finish is a sanding sealer of shellac (sanded with 220), a coat of seal-a-cell (buffed with the gray abrasive scotch brite and three coats of arm-r-seal that will be bri waxed with gray adhesive.

The hardest part:
getting the upholstery acceptable
my attention span, 250 hours for 4 chairs
the white balance on my dig cam (lighting)

I can't wait to see the table too. I hope it goes a little faster!

Craig
Sebastopol, Ca

[lou sansone]

nice work, as others have said. what type of table design are you planning on?


lou