Originally Posted by
auscab
one thing I would recommend John, is to draw the chair you want to do full size , all true and square . I do them on a large board of the one straight edge at the bottom with a large square . One of the most important thing to draw is the plan view of the seat through the joints , specialy if the back of the chair is narrower than the front. Then the front and side elevation are transferred from that. All the templates and joint angles can then be taken off that to cut the wood . When I made these chairs, Going from the drawing to the real thing showed proportions that I didn't like, that I couldn't see in the drawing . If I did them a second time around they could have become 20% better than they came out, Proportionally . The third time around they may end up 95% right . And the last 5% you never get. In the old days they did cheap timber prototypes and that solved the 20% problem from the drawing. The chairs are standing on the full size plans that the client was happy for me to go ahead with.
Rob