Jamie

How long of a dry time do you get with the epoxy?

Welcome!!

Don’t ask me how I know this one!

Titebond extend boys.

Great point on the error side is the waste side. It’s also easier to do it that way for layout, don’t have to figure in the width of the blade and can cut right over the line.

Did get started on the chairs a bit today. First step was to get a template for the back legs. Took this method right from Tom to transfer the drawing to a piece of hardboard by using awl to make a mark through the plans. Have to say it works great! Holes are kinda hard to see in the photo but we’re not to bad in person. Used a pen to connect the dots. I did have Courtney help mark out the curves as I bent a piece of hardboard to the dots. I did get the template cut out and @Tmizewould even be proud that I took a hand plane to it to sneak up on the line. ? Also skip planed a few if the boards to try to find any defects before laying out the legs.

I’ll be honest, @Kev and @Tmize your reviews and questions answered Is the main reason I went with rikon. You guys were spot on with all the pros and cons. Thank you. It is a nicely made bench top machine. The depth stop is a little not solid enough. I did some messing around with it and found if you set the bolt shorter to the bracket that it takes some of the play out of it. Also I turned the rod that the depth stop slides on so it lines up more square to the stop on the head.

I should also say that I use the homemade jig mostly for cross cutting the sheets.

I looked at the kreg tool your talking about. Ended up basically making my own out of some plywood scrap and can say that it works pretty well. Also running the Milwaukee saw, I did find at Home Depot a diablo blade that is 60 teeth @ 7 1/4 will say it takes a lot of power but gives a really clean cut on ply.

Look what showed up!

I like sanding with a low angle light like that. The shadows made really make everything pop out.

Great advice. Thank you. Do you recall what he did to put the joint in jeopardy?

I’m right there with you on the card collection. Don’t know if they are worth anything and don’t know if I’ll take the time to find out! But boy did I spend hours looking at them and putting them in books as a kid!

Amazing fit! Clever idea on the baseball card, question tho. Why use a hall of famers card to do it?

This is also totally new for me as well! I have never built a chair in my life of any sorts. Hopefully you have better luck building the Windsor than Mel Gibson did in the patriot. Him crashing through those chairs in that movie has really stuck out to me and placed some of the fear in building a chair. A guy I worked with at the cabinet shop also had me convinced that all chairs are junk. After fixing many of them I started to believe him. His theory was how do you expect such small pieces of wood to hold up to constant moving weight. Over time they are always going to fail. In some regards he is correct but I think we fixed a lot of factory built chairs that we actually poorly made. Guess time will tell with this set.

I did look hard at marks chair and like the design element that he puts into it. In the end it came down to knowing that one of my weakness is design I felt more comfortable taking a design that I like and paying for that vs marks chair which felt to modern of a design to go with my table. Would I learn a lot from marks video? I really think I would and I like how he approaches teaching. In the end it came down to me not having to completely start a design over and have one already put together. If you go to epicwoodworking.Com you can watch the first video in the series for free. Tom does a really good job explaining every step of the project as well. In all honesty after watching the first couple videos in the series I feel like I could’ve taken on the chair design of the chairs my parents have. Have learned quite a bit. As for the carving we are going to have some discussion on that. I’ve see guys make a jig and do it on the tablesaw which looks kinda fun! Also am thinking the grinder might be a fun option as well!

Heck that’s less than your garden shed! You are lucky to have friends who are smart enough to know what they are doing to help ya out but not smart enough to know how to price their labor. ??? I think I’d fall into the second part of that statement as well, beer always gets me motivated. Especially free beer!

First off I’d like to apologize that I haven’t been able to contribute much to the group lately. This is my busiest time of year for the paying job so haven’t gotten in much shop time or free time to be on here. After looking for chairs for the table I built I just couldn’t bring myself to spend $2400 on a set of Amish made ones. That’s an unfinished price to boot. I decided to make an attempt at building my own. Spent a ton of time searching the web for designs and looking at plans for them. Even looked at some chairs that my parents have that I find to be pretty comfortable. The problem with them is I had no clue on how to even copy them with all the compounding angles. I eventually found a fine woodworking article on a chair that my wife liked and I think I can handle building. https://www.finewoodworking.com/2020/03/25/a-comfortable-craftsman-style-side-chair After reading the article I seen in the comments that the author Tom had full size drawings available for sale. After checking out his site I decided to give them a try. He also does a video series on the build of them as well. Which after watching his first video I decided to purchase the video series to go with the plans. I haven’t had a chance to watch all the videos yet, but after seeing the first few they have really gave me a confidence boost in tackling this project. The drawings showed up today a little damaged from the delivery but they will still do the trick. Not sure when I will get started on them for sure, maybe this weekend with rain in the forecast. I will be using red oak and be finishing them the same way as the table. Not %100 sure on the seats yet. Courtney would like them to be wooden seats which I would be ok with as well. Only concern there is carving out the butt relief. Also thinking about adding arm rests to a couple of them, but that will be a problem to figure out down the road.

after moving all those rocks this will be a piece of cake! Beer always seems to get the help to show up!

Mind is blown! Great work! I like how you shared every step of the way. Very informative.

The yanks???? Go cubs!

Impressive logs those planks had to came out of! I hate to even ask, but my curiosity is getting the best of me. What does 16/4 run if you don’t mind sharing?

I can’t believe I watched that mess for the last 2 hours. I think we all lost.

This is a hard topic for me to be quite on! But if I speak up this topic will get shut down!

Well I ordered the rikon. Have the amazon card so get 5% off as well. Should have it in a week or so.