I haven't found chairs to be an overwhelming challenge. A woodworking instructor once told me - "Any project is just a sequence of steps. If you can do each step, you can string them together to make the most complex project."
My advice to an aspiring chairmaker is to start with a fairly simple chair - a dining room style chair is a good starter project. You'll learn what you need to know about the required dimensions and joinery in building such a chair.
The process is that you build the back, then the front, then hook them together with the sides. Making the mortise and tenons to attach the sides to the rear requires you to figure out the angle. What I do it make the mortise square into the back and then make the tenon at an angle to fit. If you make a piece from scrap first you can get everything straightened out before you cut the good wood.
Many woodworkers have the idea that chairs are difficult but they're really no more difficult than many of the other furniture projects we build every day.
There was a good book on chairs by Miller? (don't remember and don't still have a copy). If I find it I'll post the name here.
Mike
[I found it. It's "Chairmaking and Design" by Jeff Miller.]
Last edited by Mike Henderson; 01-17-2020 at 2:02 PM.
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