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Rigby Lovett Fine Furniture

Cabinetmaker

  • HOME
  • Seating
    • Mermaid Chair
    • Acacia Bar Stool
    • Stevenson Chair
    • Iroko Chair
    • China Chair
  • Storage
    • Teak Shoe Cabinet
    • Skeleton Dresser
    • Paduk Liquor Cabinet
    • Paduk and Maple Boxes
  • Tables
    • Sawhorse Table
    • Printz Table
    • Walnut Dining Table
    • Wenge Round Table
    • Tea Tray Table
  • MISC
    • Ash Crib
    • Cabinet Pulls
    • Tea Steeping Tray
  • About
  • Contact

Work - China Chair

Original
Original
Prototype
Frame
This is the form used to press the laminate back.  Five sheets of 1/16th mahogany.  
There is a compound curve where the back splat meets the crest rail.  
Splat template
Before and after shaping. 
Cutting the top of the splat on an angle to meet the crest rail. 
The splat is secured in a jig held square to the cutter and the pin in the router traces the desired shape.  
The top of the form gives me a curved surface upon which to run a handheld router.  
Tenon
Centerof the crest rail
Locked down... 
Front curve where the back splat meets the crest.  
A 45 on the edge is the face against which the shoulders of the back splat tenon will eventually meet.
Jig on 45
The piece is held tight with opposing finger joint stock.  
Mortice cut with router and guide bushing.  
With the mortice cut the center piece is ready to be joined to the two side pieces.  
Crest rails glued up. 
With the overhead vertical, the crest rail is on an angle to cut the holes for the back legs.  
The same base jig from earlier with the dowels used to locate the crest rail in the same place for each cut.  
Mortice for the back leg and a centered dowel for strength. 
Crest rail template for overhead pin router. 
Back in lock-down
Taking shape
Coming together
Rounded over. 
Shaped, sanded and glued up. 
Complex glue up getting everything together! 
Stained
Original