The Great Morris Chair project
Good Day to the Creek,
Please allow me to lay out the who, what, where, why, when and how...
This is an invitation to all Creekers:
Gary Zimmel and Walt Caza cordially invite you to join us in a remote build of a classic furniture project.
We are each going to build the same Morris chair together, just 1975 miles apart. Even farther if you decide to play along!
We have selected an attractive project that includes bow arms, through tenons, corbels and a 3 position reclining back.
The chairs will be built in our own workshops as we find time, and pics of progress and problems will be brought right here to this posting.
The plans are readily available 3 different ways, from WOOD magazine.
Details in the following post to this thread if you are interested.
We are hoping for a fun, shared learning experience building this hallmark of the Arts & Crafts movement together.
This is not a contest, nor a race. It is more about the journey, but the destination holds much promise too!
It's a great chair.
No time seemed ideal to start...
many are not in their shops in winter, most are too busy in summer.
We decided we will start within July. Plenty of time to get your plans,
gather materials, sharpen your tools and sweep our shop floors.
We are just weekend warriors with jobs, yard work, families, other projects, etc...
so progress may be slow and steady.
All it takes to join the Morris Chair project is modest skills, a desire to build a handsome and classic chair and the warm spirit of Sawmill Creek.
The only thing that can make it 'Great', is your participation !!
Further details in the following post...
Hope you'll join us,
Thanks,
Walt and Gary
:)
The great Morris Chair Build
Looks like we are going to have more than a couple of the Creekers involved with the chair project. It may take a little while to get us all finished, but watching everyones progress is going to be fun.
I've got my plans and am starting to go over them to see if mine would have any minor changes to them. Have one or two in mind and as we get closer to the start of the build I will let the group know about my changes. If anyone has any extra ideas please let us all know, thats one of the things that will be neat about this project.
I too may take a little while to get comleted as I always have a busy summer on our acreage. But as Walt said this is a journey....
Glen, I may be in compititon with you for the slow award.
As most will QSWO I am considering doing my chair and foot stool in cherry to get a little variety going. Phoned my wood guy and he has some nice cherry 6/4 that would make the legs a little faster to make.
That will be my next step. Getting all the wood into the shop to sit for awhile so I can dream about the chairs we are going to start building.
Thanks Walt for taking the liberty to get this community build off the ground...