u/GentlePersuAZN

Took quite a bit of time working on my first chair. Wanted to do a Z chair with a danish weave. Mainly curly ash with red oak accents as I ran out of ash and had some red oak scraps that worked out. The angled mortise and tenons weren't as bad as I thought but doing the shaping of the curves took a fair bit of work between a saw, chisel, rasps, files, and drill with a sanding spindle.

I wish someone had told me how long and how much cord doing a weave takes but I'm pretty glad with the results.

Used almost 1500 ft for the whole chair with a waste of about 17 ft from off cuts and trying to hide the knots in decent places.

Took quite a bit of time working on my first chair. Wanted to do a Z chair with a danish weave. Mainly curly ash with red oak accents as I ran out of ash and had some red oak scraps that worked out. The angled mortise and tenons weren't as bad as I thought but doing the shaping of the curves took a fair bit of work between a saw, chisel, and drill with a sanding spindle.

I wish someone had told me how long and how much cord doing a weave takes but I'm pretty glad with the results.

Used almost 1500 ft for the whole chair with a waste of about 17 ft from off cuts and trying to hide the knots in decent places.

I'm trying to make something akin to the Poul Jensens Z chair, though my design decisions have come to bite me in the ass. I was able to do all the radii on the sides as I made the sides and hit them with a router before assembly but now the horizontal pieces are proving difficult to shape. Due to limits of tools, skill, and time; the way I went at this was to join the two sides with straight pieces and then glue in blocks into each corner to then later shape.

Right now I've just been using a saw to cut away the bulk of the material as close as I can and using a spindle in a hand drill but boy is the end grain slowly killing me and my drill.

How would you smarter people tackle this as I still have 3 more junctions to work on?