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Eric Hartunian
04-06-2008, 7:51 PM
Hi all,
Here is my first 18th century reproduction. A corner chair, done in mahogony with a slip seat. It was a very rewarding project, lots of new techniques. This is the chair I posted about a while back with the red dye problems. Anyway, the end result was quite nice, according to my wife at least. Mostly a hand tool project, except the legs, which were done on the lathe.
Comments welcome, thanks for looking.
Eric
Mike Henderson
04-06-2008, 8:29 PM
That looks terrific, Eric. There's a lot of complex work in one of those chairs. Congratulations!
Mike
Johnny Kleso
04-06-2008, 9:29 PM
Very Nice,
I cant wait to make a ball & claw foot myself..
Robert Rozaieski
04-07-2008, 8:23 AM
Beautiful!
Dave Anderson NH
04-07-2008, 8:39 AM
Really nicely done Eric. How about some more pix from different angles and if you could, make them a bit larger.
Sam Yerardi
04-07-2008, 9:09 AM
Very nice work, Eric.
mike holden
04-07-2008, 9:59 AM
Nicely done Eric!
Did you do the upholstery also?
Mike
Bob Oehler
04-07-2008, 11:09 AM
Very nice job. I think it's very pretty.
Bob O.
gary Zimmel
04-07-2008, 12:30 PM
Eric
Nice job, very nice job......
Eric Hartunian
04-07-2008, 12:32 PM
Really nicely done Eric. How about some more pix from different angles and if you could, make them a bit larger.
Thanks Dave. I tried to make the pics larger, but SMC says attachments can't be bigger than 107kb. Is there a way around this?
I'll try to get some more shots soon.
I did the upholstery myself. There is a good episode of the Woodrights Shop online at the pbs site that shows how it was done back in the day with horsehair. I essentially followed their methods, but used that modern horsehair we call foam.
Eric
Dave Anderson NH
04-07-2008, 7:30 PM
Hi Eric, It's often best to run the pix through a free photo editing program ( I use irfanview). You can manipulate the photo resolution level for web posting and still retain a decent size such as 480 x 600 which fills most screens. Somewhere in the tech support forum are a number of threds with instructions and suggestions.
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