Library Chair Construction - Recent Progress

We've been busy trying to get the library chairs finished up and haven't had much chance for posting on the computer.  I've attached a number of photos of some of the action below.

Jack sawing sticker sticks to length

Chopping corners for the slip seat upholstery

Shaping the crest rails

Gary testing out the fit  

Testing out the bifocals, cleaning off glue

Gary scraping glue during a chair glue up

Preparing another chair for glue up

Glued up chairs

Kingston Library Chairs - Front Assemblies

Matt, his father Michael, Gary and I are still plugging away on the chairs for the Kingston Library.  We've been fitting and assembling the front legs and rails and are looking forward to gluing up the whole shootin' match.  Gary and I glued up piles of the front legs and front seat rails after sawing and hand planing slight curves on the inside faces of the legs.  Matt has fit all the side seat rails to the back posts and cut the rabbets for the slip seat upholstery on the shaper.  Michael has been fitting the glue blocks to the front rail assemblies.  Matt also has bandsawn the crest rail shapes into the chair back assemblies and is ready to flush cut them on the shaper.

More action photos of our recent progress are below:

Michael installing glue blocks.

Matt sawing out the crest rail shape on the glued up chair backs.

Matt laying out the crest rail shape on the chair backs.

End view of a wound side seat rail after processing in our jig below.

Our jig for the sander to put wind in the side seat rails
so they land flush with the canted rear posts.

Matt admiring his handiwork in a standing chair.

Gary cutting kerfs for wedges which will secure the side seat
rail tenons in the rear posts.

Chair Making - Cutting Compound Angle Tenons and More

Our work has continued on the Kingston Library chairs this week.  We've been gluing up the backs and making the front assemblies.  Matt's father Michael has also joined us for some of the action and Gary has been giving us a huge hand since the beginning of the project.

Here is a photo of Michael at the tablesaw ripping the front leg stock.

Here is a shot of Gary and I cleaning off glue from the back side of a chair back assembly.  We initially thought our splat pieces were bending under clamp pressure and we used the quickclamps to flex them back.  Our solution to getting at the back of the assembly for cleaning up the glue was to use our friend Evan's router jig for a support.  Turned out the jig was useful for something, Evan (that's for messing with my chisels).

Matt has been hard at it cutting the complex joinery to connect the side seat rails and stretchers to the rear posts.  The jig wedge is set to the "cant angle corrected by the trapezoid angle" which I keep written on a sample block so we can always look back to remember how to do it.  Please feel free to post questions if you would like more information about cutting these joints and the set ups.