Building Chairs

Hi, and welcome to my little mini workshop! I will attempt to show the process I go through to create a set of chairs out of walnut. Pardon my blogging skills! I'm acting like I know what I'm doing, and realize I'm probobly not doing this the correct way, but bear with me. I'll get it right eventually! This is my first time, so these can only get easier with time and practice. Enjoy!

My home away from home. I know its a mess, but it's my little world, and I love it!

Getting ready to make some chairs in the mess I call my workshop!

Here I start cutting strips of stock for all the chair pieces. Each chair has 19 different pieces. Most are 1/16". The legs are cut out of 1/8" material.

Here I have all the raw pieces which need shaped layed out. I have circle and ellipse templates I use to make the curves, and I lightly draw out the portion which needs sanding with pencil.

I use my dremel tool on a stand so I can shape and sand all the pieces. It's nice to be able to have both hands free, and a LOT safer too!

All the pieces are shaped and sanded, and separated into groups for easy identification.