On Wed 27 Apr 2005 08:21:16p, [email protected] (J T) wrote in
news:[email protected]:
I take it,
> a Low King's Chair would be shorter.
No, I think it's the chair the king sits in when he's high. A low king or a
sober one would have to sit somewhere else.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:21:16 -0400, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
>http://www.celticwood.com/catalog/Chairs/index.html
>
> There's some others, but that's the one I really like. I take it,
>a Low King's Chair would be shorter. Either way, looks easy enough to
>make.
For some very low value of "easy".
Tell you what: you do the frame, I'll do the seat.
Lee
Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 6:54pm (EDT-3) [email protected] (Lee=A0DeRaud)
sayeth:
For some very low value of "easy". <snip>
You saying you don't think it would be easy? I hate it when I have
to explain.
Make a front, dupe it for the back. Join them - I'd possibly use
drilled dowels, with long bolts; or just dowels fit to holes; or
something else. Cut a back, leather or canvas for the seat. You want
it purty, you take more time. Like I said, easy.
I wouldn't have responded, but saw this while making a post. So
decided to take a look - I'm not back for real.
JOAT
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
- Brander Matthews
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:21:30 -0400, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:
>Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 6:54pm (EDT-3) [email protected] (Lee DeRaud)
>sayeth:
>For some very low value of "easy". <snip>
>
> You saying you don't think it would be easy? I hate it when I have
>to explain.
>
> Make a front, dupe it for the back. Join them - I'd possibly use
>drilled dowels, with long bolts; or just dowels fit to holes; or
>something else. Cut a back, leather or canvas for the seat. You want
>it purty, you take more time. Like I said, easy.
"Hey, look! Four wheels, two seats: instant Ferrari. You want
it purty, you take more time. Like I said, easy." Sheesh.
> I wouldn't have responded, but saw this while making a post. So
>decided to take a look - I'm not back for real.
"Not for real", that's for *damn* sure...
Lee
Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 7:50pm (EDT-3) [email protected] (Lee=A0DeRaud)
mumbled:
"Hey, look! Four wheels, two seats: instant Ferrari. You want it purty,
you take more time. Like I said, easy." Sheesh. <snip>
No, that would be a Ford.
JOAT
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
- Brander Matthews
J T wrote:
> Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 6:54pm (EDT-3) [email protected] (Lee DeRaud)
> sayeth:
> For some very low value of "easy". <snip>
>
> You saying you don't think it would be easy? I hate it when I have
> to explain.
>
> Make a front, dupe it for the back.
How do you propose to make the front? Now if you use plywood, no problem
other then that the grain will look all wrong and the edges will suck.
Not going to be any easier in solid wood; probably a lamination or the like.
PK
Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 11:42pm [email protected] (Paul=A0Kierstead)
wonders:
How do you propose to make the front? Now if you use plywood, no problem
other then that the grain will look all wrong and the edges will suck.
Not going to be any easier in solid wood; probably a lamination or the
like.
I don't propose to make one, period. If I was, no prob about
plywood, because it'd be a "rough use" chair, so wouldn't matter, or I'd
paint it - probably yellow. But, if I wanted nice, for company to see
and use, I'd probably use solid wood, and make it along the lines of The
Peacock Chair. I wouldn't use bolts tho, possibly pegged dowels. If I
wanted to spend a lot of time on it, and make it especially strong, I'd
probably laminate it. But, like I said, I don't figure it would be
especially hard to make one, either way.
JOAT
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
- Brander Matthews
J T wrote:
> Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 11:42pm [email protected] (Paul Kierstead)
> wonders:
> How do you propose to make the front? Now if you use plywood, no problem
> other then that the grain will look all wrong and the edges will suck.
> Not going to be any easier in solid wood; probably a lamination or the
> like.
>
> I don't propose to make one, period. If I was, no prob about
> plywood, because it'd be a "rough use" chair, so wouldn't matter, or I'd
> paint it - probably yellow. But, if I wanted nice, for company to see
> and use, I'd probably use solid wood, and make it along the lines of The
> Peacock Chair. I wouldn't use bolts tho, possibly pegged dowels. If I
> wanted to spend a lot of time on it, and make it especially strong, I'd
> probably laminate it. But, like I said, I don't figure it would be
> especially hard to make one, either way.
Are you talking about making a chair that kind of looks like that one from
40 feet away if you squint your eyes and don't look too hard, or are you
talking about a real replica, that, standing beside the original, looks
enough like it for you to have to examine fine detail to figure out which
was the original?
After you've duplicated it get back to us and tell us how many hours you put
into it.
> JOAT
> A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
> - Brander Matthews
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:46:48 -0400, "J. Clarke"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>J T wrote:
>
>> Wed, Apr 27, 2005, 11:42pm [email protected] (Paul Kierstead)
>> wonders:
>> How do you propose to make the front? Now if you use plywood, no problem
>> other then that the grain will look all wrong and the edges will suck.
>> Not going to be any easier in solid wood; probably a lamination or the
>> like.
>>
>> I don't propose to make one, period. If I was, no prob about
>> plywood, because it'd be a "rough use" chair, so wouldn't matter, or I'd
>> paint it - probably yellow. But, if I wanted nice, for company to see
>> and use, I'd probably use solid wood, and make it along the lines of The
>> Peacock Chair. I wouldn't use bolts tho, possibly pegged dowels. If I
>> wanted to spend a lot of time on it, and make it especially strong, I'd
>> probably laminate it. But, like I said, I don't figure it would be
>> especially hard to make one, either way.
>
>Are you talking about making a chair that kind of looks like that one from
>40 feet away if you squint your eyes and don't look too hard, or are you
>talking about a real replica, that, standing beside the original, looks
>enough like it for you to have to examine fine detail to figure out which
>was the original?
>
>After you've duplicated it get back to us and tell us how many hours you put
>into it.
Don't hold your breath.
This looks like something David Marks would design: making the bending
forms for the legs would be a couple-day project all by itself.
("Step 1: Assume a shopfull of tools.
Step 2: Go buy more tools.
Step 3: And clamps. *Lots* of clamps. Big beefy mothers.
Step 4: Did I mention you'd need a buttload of clamps?")
Note that the Peacock Chair that Joat proposed as an alternate design
looks quite a bit easier...and the people who actually built a bunch
of them described it as "very hard".
Lee