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20th March 2011, 01:05 PM #1
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4 American Oak diners
Hello forumites, here are some diners I recently made at work to match an existing one.
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20th March 2011, 01:42 PM #2
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20th March 2011, 09:05 PM #3
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They look great good work!
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20th March 2011, 09:13 PM #4
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More please!
How did you match the leg profiles?
Did you take the original apart, or somehow trace around them? did you just eyeball them ?
Howjadoit?
BTW
really really excellent stuff (that's why I want to know more!)
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20th March 2011, 09:42 PM #5
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Lovely job well done. Great strong chair with style.
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20th March 2011, 10:06 PM #6
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Didn't take anything apart. I put a pencil on the belt sander and sanded it down to the lead over its whole length - this allows for it to be pushed against the original and it will mark exactly the same thing on the ply/MDF to cut a template. Hope that made sense, if you like i'll take a picture of how i did it.
Thanks for the comments, I was just glad to finally finish them. 2 weeks for 4 chairs is just ridiculous :P
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20th March 2011, 10:20 PM #7
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Call me thicky!
I don't understand the pencil on the belt sander.
I really, really would be very thankfull for any help.
WE have a member of our Mens Shed who has a chair that she has a real attachment to. It is quite similar to the one that you have reproduced. She wants to firstly restore it, and then perhaps reproduce it.
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21st March 2011, 11:29 AM #8
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Very nice, and I can understand the two weeks. I suspect a lot of the time was spent on the sanding and finsih.
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21st March 2011, 09:07 PM #9
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Well done!! Most impressive!!
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21st March 2011, 09:39 PM #10
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Actually, only a day or 2 all up sanding. Most of the time was trying to sort out all the #%$&ing angles and curves
Originally Posted by BobR
I have also posted pics of my special flat pencil for Avery and anyone else who's interested
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