Since I've made the chess/play table and it's been in the living room, the need for a chair quickly became apparent. I did some digging on the net but didn't find much. So, off to the library and stumbled across a Popular Mechanics book of chairs and tables. PM plans are pretty easy to read and understand. I've looked at some "shop drawings" and been a little lost.
Anyways this book had a kids table and chair set that looked pretty good. I just needed to size down the chair because my son isn't quite that big yet. I read another book that had some suggestions for chair heights/ages so I scaled it to that. I was on another tear not to buy anything for this project either. I didn't want to buy table-top fasteners so I made some "Nahm style" to fit into the groove around the rails.
I had some cupped 12" wide 3/4 pine around so I just kept ripping it until it was flat again and wide enough for the seat. Then I used biscuits to join it back together. It made for an interesting pattern.
To try and match the table somewhat I used some "golden pecan" stain and topped it off with wipe-on poly.
Even though it's small it has no less than 20 mortise and tennon joints for the 8 rails and 2 back slats. My HF mortise machine did well again though it's a pain to setup.
I'll use what I learned here to build some dining room chairs soon enough.
More here: http://www.wpsee.com/gallery/view_al...ame=Chair4Liam
Bill
Anyways this book had a kids table and chair set that looked pretty good. I just needed to size down the chair because my son isn't quite that big yet. I read another book that had some suggestions for chair heights/ages so I scaled it to that. I was on another tear not to buy anything for this project either. I didn't want to buy table-top fasteners so I made some "Nahm style" to fit into the groove around the rails.
I had some cupped 12" wide 3/4 pine around so I just kept ripping it until it was flat again and wide enough for the seat. Then I used biscuits to join it back together. It made for an interesting pattern.
To try and match the table somewhat I used some "golden pecan" stain and topped it off with wipe-on poly.
Even though it's small it has no less than 20 mortise and tennon joints for the 8 rails and 2 back slats. My HF mortise machine did well again though it's a pain to setup.
I'll use what I learned here to build some dining room chairs soon enough.
More here: http://www.wpsee.com/gallery/view_al...ame=Chair4Liam
Bill
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