Mary Ostler

The Long an plodding road continues with Emily’s Highchair. I am getting tired. I will be glad when I finally get to finishing this chair. I am actually rather excited about doing the reed seat on the chair.

The arms are shape kind of like an exclamation point. I walked around the house menacing people with the club.

The under side of the arms had 1/2″ & 3/4″ holes drilled. The main post and 5 spindles will occupy these holes.

To give the arms a little bit of interest, I beveled along the side and around the hand rest. Carving around a round perimeter of a piece is not my idea of fun.

Checking to see if I drilled the arm  hole was in the right spot. I had to turn the flattened piece of wood on the lathe to get a nice 3/4″ round tenon on the back leg side of the arm.

The two arms are done but for a little more sanding. I also went ahead and cut out the back rail that will be the center of the chair. Everything but the circle in the center has to be worked with on the lathe. Its a little nerve wracking having the large disc spinning so close to the cutting tool being held in one hand. It also doesn’t help that the spinning disk in mostly invisible while its spinning.

I managed not to kill myself. It looks alright. I am kind of freaking out, as I still am not sure what I will be carving in the middle of the disk. I tell you… This whole en-devour has not been planed out well at all!

The small spindles that fit underneath the arm rests. I used a story stick to get the general dimensions the same.

I decided to alternate every spindle with a different style spindle. This way it adds to the coolness factore, and hides any inconsistency between similar spindles.

I think it worked out fairly nicely.

Next exciting episode: Mary finds out the horrors of turning a small diameter long spindle… Can we saw Choppy McChop Chop….