My second stick chair. Made from European beech. Legs and back sticks are rived. Finished with Tried and True varnish.
I designed it as I was building it. To my eye, the proportions look a little off, but I had lots of fun and learned a bunch.
What do you guys think? Would love to have your honest impressions.
I would love to tackle this chair as my next project.
For context, I read Chris Schwartz’s The Stick Chair Book and just finished my second chair. Both were a great success.
But the chairs in the book either have fairly simple back-stick angles (all vertical in elevation) or, when the back-sticks have compound angles, they enter the arms/backrest via through-mortises, which is fairly simple using Schwartz’s arm jig method.
This chair seems different. Nearly all back-sticks seem to have compound angles and enter a steam bent crest through blind mortises. How does one reverse-engineer this kind of design? Mostly, how should I define the seat and crest mortise angles, so that the back-sticks fit perfectly?
Thank you!