It is a beautiful Cherry American Welsh Stick Chair made from one Cherry log. The seat is from one piece, not glued up, and the legs, arms, sticks and comb all match up. As it ages and darkens it should be lovely. Even better it is damn comfortable to sit in. Now to find a place to put it where I can use and MsBubba is happy. BTW, when I told her what she gave me for my birthday I got some serious side eye. After seeing the chair I think she is coming around.
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As always, click 'em to big 'em,
ken
This is going to be the chair I want to make. I sat in an ash one CS had at his shop. I agree that it is a nice sitting chair. Looks like you dodged the bullet with this one. What was the freight company name?
ReplyDeleteRalph,
DeleteYRC, but I would use them again and have shipped other things with them with no problems. I've had more problems with UPS than YRC. It is just luck, whose time it is in the barrel.
While I wanted the chair because I wanted the chair another reason was to get my hands on one to study. I've already discovered a few things I can do better or different. The first is to make a much lighter chair.
ken
Bet Chris was happy that he was shipping wooden furniture to a woodworker!
ReplyDeleteJeremy,
DeleteNot sure if that was a factor but the whole process was a pleasure from the first contact to order to working out how to proceed with the damaged chair. Chris is a first class act.
ken
If the spindle could come out, it could come back in. The problem was doing it without breaking anything.
ReplyDeleteAny picture of the process?
Sylvain
Sylvain,
DeleteBreaking the stick was my prime worry. I really do not know how it came out without breaking. No photos but I used two spreading clamps from the seat to the comb to lift the comb enough to bend the stick back in place, added hide glue to the exposed part of the tenons and then clamped the whole thing back in place.
ken
Glad to hear its all allright. Phew dodged a bullet there. Sure look like the damages to the crate was caused by a forklift.
ReplyDeleteBob, taking a break from home schooling the grandkid, its the weekend yah :-)
Bob,
DeleteI did not want to send it back, it was too pretty a chair and in this day a chair made from a single log is not common. I can't say enough good things about how CS handled the problem.
ken
Sweet! In my experience, side eye from SWMBO is unavoidable. Knee-jerk reaction like a squirrel grabbing a fallen seed or a lizard snapping at a fly. She didn't choose it so it must be suspect. Or am I projecting....?
ReplyDeleteStan,
ReplyDeleteLOL and so true. "What do you need to buy a chair for, you make them and we do not have room for another". The only answer is "yes dear but ain't it pretty".
ken