wrote:
On Jun 8, 9:42 pm, BillinDetroit wrote:
I'm trying to build a Jakes Chair and it would very much help if I had the overall dims for part#4 & #5. The drawings give the length, but not
the width.

Hey Bill! How's the website biz going? Well, I hope.
I noticed you haven't been on the turning ng much lately so I am
assuming you are busy counting all your money!

Well, I hope so anyway.

Try this:

http://www.internetwoodworking.com/w5/chair.html


Thanks for the link ... I'll look at it in a few moments.

I've been extremely busy of late with congregation responsibilities and
fixing up my own home, too. I had a lot of projects that I had just
about talked to death - it was time to either do them or tuck my tail
between my legs and concede defeat. Several of them are done and the
others are (for the most part) at least begun. My front yard of this
week bares little resemblance to my front yard of two weeks ago. I am
just 8 paving stones from done. Hooray!!!!

The back yard is next, and I've already made a small beginning.

I have also been carving on an otherwise unimpressive box elder bowl --
just an ivy pattern to get a sense for how it's done. I turned this one
with the intention of making it stout enough to serve as a utilitarian
fruit bowl after carving so there's a lot of wood in the walls -- about
2/3 of which has to come out by hand.

Chalk up a few hours toward my education. I am due for jurying with the
Ann Arbor guild in November, so I'm trying to stretch a little. I have
some nice translucent pieces already but I also have a few ideas for
carvings I want to try out.

I CAN say very good things for the Proxxon reciprocating carver. Now,
however, I've got learn to sharpen gouges a whole lot better! Out of the
box, the Proxxon tools cut shavings you could see through. It cost me
two band-aids to learn to take them seriously.

Hopefully I've learned my lesson with only small slices.

I've never gotten along with CAD programs, so I'll probably just make up
a trammel for the radii and wing-it for the dog ear length and curves.

Bill


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