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A lot of the older pieces would have a flat back, but a bowed front. I feel they did that for stability.. -
Picked up some new chair tools, a small HNT Gordon inside curve spokeshave, Narex butt chisel for splitting the spindle ends for wedges, and some American made drill bits. The holes are really important in these chairs and unfortunately not all bits are actually their stated size. American bits tend to be more accurate for this use case. -
Thanks Mark! Actually the spindles are hand shaped with spokeshave's on this chair The difficulty is kind of three fold first the back spindles are steam bent after being shaped, second the spindles and arms are splayed making the drilling accuracy even more important as a slight error at the bottom will cause a much larger change at the top. With the two rails being so close together at the top of the chair you cannot physically bend them like you can where you have a 20" spindle, finally the duck billed corners at the top outside of the chair posts. They appear to be miters but they are not, pulling that off takes some accuracy becuase if the joint isn't perfect it would be obvious its not a miter if that makes sense. FWIW I'm still researching but I believe the spindles on this chair are turned so I will need more lathe practice as well.
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@pkinneb, with that explanation I am even more impressed. I always assumed the spindle was two pieces. That is difficult to turn (good thing you've got that new lathe ). What makes the birdcage style chair more difficult? -
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