Pub chairs – day four
I finished cutting out and glueing up the seat back that I forgot to make earlier in the week. While that was drying, I pulled out the 4 pieces that will make up the seat.
Glueing up the seat back
I needed to mark a curve on the edge of each of the boards. I started by placing three clamps in locations that allowed me to hold a bent strip of wood. By tracing along the wood, I now have my curve.
Marking the curve for the seat
Cutting the curve on the bandsaw
I swapped out my 3/4″ band saw blade for my 1/4″ one so I could cut the curves. The first one went pretty well, but the blade bellied out in the middle of the board.
Cut complete
Sanding the newly cut face
I sanded the new curve down with the orbital sander, then laid this board back against the next one and marked it using the cut one as a template.
Marking the rest
I finished cutting the rest of the boards with varying degrees of success. It looks like I will have a lot of sanding, planing, or filing to even everything out, but I think it will look nice when complete. I wend ahead and glued up the seat. I will worry about smoothing it out another day.
Glueing the seat up
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