I am taking a little break from the Beverley. There is some serious stuff to do on that, so I will have this break and then go back fresh.
Meanwhile I am doing a project that has been on the cards for some time. My workshop chair is a 100 year old high chair, the seat being about 21 inches from the floor. I need this to be three inches higher. This has been made more necessary by engaging in the Beverley project, I could do with that extra bit of height to get round the fettling and cutting on the bench.
So I am going to make a new one based on the same George V era design, as it is fairly basic. I have posted a few pictures of this from today. Firstly the piece of timber selected from my little stock pile of Ash that must be 40 or 50 years since it was cut down. The second shows the back legs marked out and ready to cut from the stock, then showing the bendy plane used for planing the curves. The next picture shows that one of the legs is almost ready for cutting to width, and the final picture shows my original chair being used as a pattern.
I thought it better to start with the most difficult parts, there being several curves, angles and straight bits on these. The original seat is made from one piece of wood, I am going to have to glue two pieces together to get the right size, an exercise in planing true and square, as per the school lesson over 50 years ago!
