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How to Construct Your Own Chair or Stool Based on Designs from the 18th and 19th Centuries
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Learn to design and build your own chairs and stools from original plans. Packed full of advice and illustrations. Including an introductory essay on upholstery. A Perfect companion for any amateur carpenter
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How to Construct Your Own Chair or Stool Based on Designs from the 18th and 19th Centuries - Anon
Chairs
TWO DINING-ROOM CHAIRS
THE chair shown by the half-tone reproduction (Fig. 1) is slightly more difficult to make than the one illustrated by Fig. 2, which is of a somewhat simplified form. Two elevations of this latter are shown by Figs. 3 and 4. The differences may be pointed out, and the reader left to adopt whichever scheme he may prefer, or feel best qualified to undertake.
In the half-tone the two back rails are very slightly curved in plan, and the front of the seat is also curved a little, thus adding somewhat to the finish and appearance of the chair, although these details are not actually essential for its comfort. In this case, also, it will be observed that the lower rails which connect the legs in the simpler design (Fig. 2) do not appear, thus making the whole construction depend for strength on first-class workmanship in the joints between the legs and seat rails.
Reverting to the chair shown by Fig. 2, the front legs should be 1 1/2 in. square (finished sizes are given throughout), splayed at the angles as at A in Fig. 5, the splays or chamfers widening downwards, and the four square sides tapering, until just above the floor the legs form in section an octagon contained in a square of 1-in. sides as at B. Below this each leg curves out to a circular foot of about 1 1/2 in. diameter, as clearly indicated in the same
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