Thread: Mission chair and carver

looking good lignum

Lovely work Lignum. Love the through tenons. What timber is that?

Tex

Wowsers! Great looking chair.

Gidday

As always great craftsmanship Lignum!!!

Any chance of doing some run throughs of your technique (lots a pics n how to's please)

I wanna learn from you guys!!!!

Regards Lou

Originally Posted by Tex B

Lovely work Lignum. Love the through tenons. What timber is that?

Tex

Thanx Tex The timber is good old Tassie Oak. To many woodies say its a dull timber, but i dissagree. It depends on how you use it, and the best part, its cheap

Originally Posted by NewLou

Gidday

As always great craftsmanship Lignum!!!

Any chance of doing some run throughs of your technique (lots a pics n how to's please)

I wanna learn from you guys!!!!

Regards Lou

Thanx to you to Lou In three to four weeks ill be getting a digital camera so i can start getting a much better catalouge of all the bits and peices i do. I just got conformation on a job to make a 1200mm (dia) x 300mm coffee table with an inset plinth of 150mm, with two drawers. All to be veneered in qtr sawn American Oak. It will be a moderatly complex job, so if all goes to plan and i have the camera when i start i will do a WIP right from the start

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Do you use potties with these - am I missing something or, are you ??:eek:

Nice work Lignum, and I think Tassie oak is a good choice.

Cheers,

Great stuff Lignum.

Missioni chair and table are on my long list. Hope thay turn out at least half as good as your look

Tanxs Tez forgot to add their was eight chairs and two carvers and table. the table pic is to hard to see so i didnt post it

Nice style of chair and look very well made. Great stuff! Would love to watch you doing the mortice and tenon joints as that's the only thing stopping me from tackling some chairs myself - mine always end up too loose!

Lignum,

Those chairs look very impressive. I presume you must have some jig or machine for cutting mortises. Those chairs look as though they have dozens of them.

Rocker

Originally Posted by Rocker

Lignum,

Those chairs look very impressive. I presume you must have some jig or machine for cutting mortises. Those chairs look as though they have dozens of them.

Rocker

Howdy Rocker Being the woodworking tragic that i am, i undertook this project with no mortice machine :eek: so all were done by hand. The total job lot was a 2.4 table, eight chairs, two carvers and a matching hall table.

In total 512 of the buggers. 390 @ 12 x 12 that were the slats, and 116 larger tennons 76 of those were through tennons. The joinery on the back and front rails were dowled as i had to draw the line somewhere (saved doing 80 more) I dont mind dowelles on the front and back rails, but the side rails i like to mortice for strength. Pics of the table and hall table arnt very good but you can see what completed the set

Wow. At a conservative 10 mins per mortice, that 5120 minutes, or 85 hours of solid mortice chopping:eek:

Love the tables. The stepped slots in the end pieces are a superb bit of detailing, among all the other superb details.

I bow down in awe, and will attempt a greeny...