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mortise and tenon (4 of 4)
So, I gently clamped my side dry fit to see where I'm at...
(the double clamps pull nice and straight, but gently!)
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Tenon poking through the back of the back leg.
And a wider tenon, with a mysterious yellow dot poking through the front of the front leg.
(You may recall I modified the front wider than plans...for better balance)
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Dry fitted, but unclamped, this is chair backside.
The tenon ends will be chamfered by 1/8" later...
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After another shop session, I end up with a pair of dry fitted side frames.
These will be taken apart to let in the stretcher tenons next time.
Sorry for long-talking, but I wanted to offer what I stumbled to learn,
for anyone who might wanna fasttrack their own lessons.
I feel I am very early in my woodworking journey.
If you're still with me, thanks!
be well,
Walt
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Back in the land of the living...
Hey, guys. I've been distracted for awhile. Thanks for the concerned emails - I think the last project update had me whining about how my mortises turned out.
I took a short break from the chairs - piled up all the materials and decided to take a swing at the shop - the worktables had been driving me batty for a couple of years - sagging, out of square, generally messy, and poorly organized. So, I put an ad on CL, got rid of ALL the tables and benches in one sitting, and started over from a gutted shop. I had a week vacation, and LOML was summer vacationing, so she spent a LOT of time in the shop helping and lending emotional support. She went so far as to sit down with boxes and boxes of screws with a tape measure and organized them all by length/type/finish. :)
Anyhow, 28 sheets of plywood, 2 weeks and a gallon of Deft lacquer later, I have new Oak ply/Alder trimmed LARGE workbenches. Everything is now at 34 1/2" to match the height of the PM2000, even the mobile tables (that double as scrap storage). So, throwing a sheet of ply on the TS got easier and easier as I built things out. By the last two or three cuts, it was a breeze. Why didn't I think of this earlier?
The sticking point was that I designed the drop (4 7/16", of course!) for the Makita LS 1012 CSMS with a couple of inches on each side for clearance. Then, when I got the 20' of lowers built and got the saw mounted, flushed, level, I noticed a teensy issue - it had enough clearance to go to ALMOST 10 degrees either way. (*sigh*)
So, instead of tearing out the saw and the cabinet, I thought, "Self, this shouldn't be too hard" and raised the saw to countertop level, made 6 marks at the various 48 degree marks, sliding all directions, and got to cutting. It was WAY more work than I thought, getting all those compound angles and inside 45s cut and trimmed and sanded and plumb was a lot of work. And now the cabinet looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright creation near the miter saw. But it's functional, and finished.
Anyhow, a new workspace, and completely reorganized and cleaned out shop, and way more table top space to work let me get a fresh look at the chairs, and gave me some time to think about new angles as I finished this big project off.
Got to working last night on side slats, spacers, and got 4 sides dry-fit! Note that I'm going with slats/spacers all the way down the side instead of the center piece with the cutout. I like the look better this way.
Then got the jig/form made for the arms. I took a sightly different tack than Gary. I cut 7 pieces of 3/4" MDF at 36" x 6", screwed them each together from opposing sides after clamping tightly and squaring, then drew the tracing on the face. Wrestled the whole block over to the band saw, and with one pass, had the whole thing done. Because it's a form, it didn't require any sanding, as I got a clean cut and went slowly. Heavy little beast, but I guess that's the point! Started to cut out the pattern for the arm shape, then realized I'd have to use 1/4" or something anyhow, as it needs to be flexible enough to bend on the curve. I may just stick with paper. Of course, the first pass with the Festool on the MDF left a nice clean cutline in one of the new mobile benches. (*facepalm*)
Anyhow, I'm back in the groove. Got lots of catch-up work to do, but hopefully over the next week or two I'll be where I should have been. Making this shop work for me has been a bit of a trial. but well worth it.
Got legs; and a question or two
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Walt Caza
... I have been speaking with a couple 'stealth' builders who are following along,
and quietly building their own chairs.
One of whom is using a shed full of red oak, and promises to post here
as soon as he feels he has something worth showing....
Guess that was my cue ... My original plan was to follow along with this thread and keep my mouth shut in case I never finished the chair, but speaking up might keep me on track. Hello all!
So ... I'm working in red oak, even though my shedful is dwindling. I glued up my legs this weekend and am milling some lumber for the sides. I need a new BS blade before I resaw the pieces for the arms.
I had a question about a potential "gotcha" in the Wood magazine directions (which I'm following, more or less) ... how much springback should I expect from the laminated arms? And how much of a problem will it be? Would it make more sense to trim the sides up using the arms themselves as the template, rather than the mdf form?
Thanks!
well done, sweet chair and first posting...
Hi Everyone,
I want to formally welcome Brandon to the Creek, and also the Morris chair group.
You built a terrific Morris chair, made a great first post, and shared
a few pics with us to boot!
Threads are like an ongoing conversation, it is never too late to chime in.
How did you like making your lock miter legs?
Do you have any construction pics...we would love to see them.
Pleasing colour, any chance you want to lay out the basics,
for those not likely to dig up Jewitt's homepage?
Those are some beefy corbels! Attached by screws then plugs?
Care to share how you made your pivot and recline pegs?
Inquiring minds wanna know!
Sweet looking leg top tenons, do they really poke through the arms?
Or are they faux caps? Not that that would make them any lesser...
Do you find your 4 degree seat slant comfortable?
If you had it to do again, would you change that slant?
(some of us are discussing that very issue today!)
Your cushions look awesome...are you willing to tell us about them, too?
It is clear to me that you have nailed the chair trifecta:
-sports
-reading
-and naps
congratulations!
You have every right to be happy with, and proud of, your Morris chair.
Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
We hope you stick around the Creek, and share some more!
Good to have you on the team.
Thanks,
Walt
ps All these variations are the spice of our story!
pss Brandon, What are you working on next?!?