Sunday, December 13, 2009

Chair Progress - A 6 Pack


After returning from the great Thanksgiving trip, and back to my day job, I was able to hit the shop hard and finish all six chairs up to the point of upholstery. I finished the chairs with 2 coats of General Finishes Lamp Black Milk Paint. I had not used that product before and I was pleased with the coverage and performance straight from the can. Top coat is General Finishes Hi-Perfomance semi-gloss. We'll deliver the chairs next week and will apply the 2" foam and the fabric my daughter-in-law picks out.
If you don't like mortise and tenon, don't build these chairs :) The are 22 of them per chairs so I cut a total of 132, not counting the ones I screwed up. I think overall the chairs came out well and I will post some photo's of the upholstered chairs after we return from the Christmas trip.

3 comments:

  1. The chairs look great Rick! I'm looking forward to seeing them upholstered. Oh, and nice tool chest in the background!

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  2. Thanks Dan, the chairs were a challenge but I enjoyed building them. The tool cabinet was built better than 10 years ago I guess and long before I had that many hand tools. I think I want to build another for hand tools only, then use that one for everything else. So many projects, so little time. Rick

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