I don’t own a lathe so, when possible I’ve been going up to Pratt Fine Arts and getting lessons from whomever will teach me .. so it’s going very slowly. I tried speeding up the stretchers by the octagon method on the table saw, but I’m a serious novice when it comes to turning.
Anne of All Trades giving excellent instruction.
Stretchers pre-shaped on the table saw.
I started wondering if I could use my shave horse and draw knife to move things along. I spent 6 days in my Windsor chair class shaping spindles so I might be able to pull it off.
Here’s what I did and you can be the judge. I’ll put up more photos as things progress. Oh, and by the way, I think this was really Jason Thigpen’s (@txheritage) idea.
First I created stop cuts on the table saw. See far right leg.
Then, after careful lay out and lots of pencil lines, I trimmed with a sharp draw knife.
Trimming to the stop cuts.
Once most of the waste was gone I went to the spoke shaves and did , finally, finish cuts with my small Lee Valley concave spoke shave.
This is me using pencil lines to make sure I even things up.
Then I trimmed the feet the same way.
And finally I made the rounded top with draw knife and rasps. See next picture for work in progress.
More photos to come.
I’m in the middle of a nonlathe Roorkee chair as well, although I am deviating from the Schwarz leg design. I’ll be interested to see how yours turns out.
Ewww! I’d love to see pictures. I really love your work and photos.
Those legs look amazing! Lots of fine detailed work involved in doing it that way. But, you happen to be pretty good at fine and detailed work! I cannot wait to sit down in it!
Thank you sir!! I’ll make sure I bring it next time we get together. I hope that’ll be real soon. 🙂
Nice work but that’s a Lee valley shave 😄
I need an editor. 🙂 I was using both an LN and LV shave .. sigh. 😉