Bubinga Lowbacks


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Looking sweet. Nice jig-a-mado for them leg dado's 

Thanks John. Where you been hiding these last few months??

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Looking sweet. Nice jig-a-mado for them leg dado's 

Thanks John. Where you been hiding these last few months??

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Just now, shaneymack said:

Thanks John. Where you been hiding these last few months??

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Thanks John. Where you been hiding these last few months??

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Oh, no place special..but my heads spinning lately. I was just about to explain all that in an off topic post.

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11 hours ago, Denette said:

Beautiful work. I imagine that the challenge of this project is now that if something goes wrong, buying more stock is illegal! emoji47.png

Thank you ! I have quite a bit left so im ok. Nothing will go wrong ;)  And I dont think being on the Cites list makes it illeagal to purchase just much harder to find. 

3 hours ago, SimonR said:

those are shaping up nicely there! Are they starting to be "fun" to move yet?

Thanks. Yeah im sure these chairs will weigh 100lbs each once done ! I was in the shop in my slippers yesterday and dropped one of the back legs on my toe......OUCH !!!!!!

3 hours ago, CandorLush said:

Great ingenuity with the jigs, they clearly worked out really well 

Thanks, but really nothing new under the sun. These are pretty common techniques to work with this kind of oddly shaped stock. I take no credit :)

 

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1 hour ago, shaneymack said:

 

Thanks, but really nothing new under the sun. These are pretty common techniques to work with this kind of oddly shaped stock. I take no credit :)

 

You're not the first person to use bubinga either but the way you are using it is looking fantastic so I am going to give you credit whether you like it or not B)

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3 hours ago, Anna S said:

These are beautiful!  How do you like the plans?  Well written?  I've thought about trying to make the rocking chair on their site, but I don't know anyone who's built it.

Marc has the build over on the Guild site and it's easy to follow..  Fun build, I had a blast with it!

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These are beautiful!  How do you like the plans?  Well written?  I've thought about trying to make the rocking chair on their site, but I don't know anyone who's built it.

Thanks Anna !

If Marc is the gold standard of woodworking instruction I'd say Charles Brock is the bronze standard. His instruction is pretty good, just not awesome like Marcs. I built this chair with Marcs guild video

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37 minutes ago, shaneymack said:

 

 

I have been moving at a snails pace on this project. Life is kinda crazy. We put an offer on a house/acreage yesterday and put our house on the market last week. I've had trouble focusing on this in the midst of the craziness. Anyway, i got a bit done tonight.

 

 

Had to drill the 1/2" hole on top of front legs to accept dowel to attach arms

 

 

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This was how i drilled straight with the leg. I just eyeballed the bit with the pieces of wood.

 

 

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Got got the holes drilled and legs attached with screws. As careful as I was, two screws broke off in the chair and I broke two brad point drillbits. This is an angry, angry wood. Lol

 

 

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Time to start cutting the profiles on the front legs

 

 

Side profile :

 

 

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Front profile

 

 

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Small section at the top that needed to be cut off

 

 

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I also snapped a 1/4" bandsaw blade. I was going hard on it....oops.

 

 

Here is what the legs look like on the chair

 

 

Curve towards front

 

 

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Taper

 

 

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I have burned a bunch of bubinga already and my kindling pile just seems to be growing !! So much waste, breaks my heart !

 

 

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Some of that Bubinga 'kindling' might make very nice tools handles, etc.

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