r/Chairmaking

Here is a chair i made from baltic birch plywood for a client. What do you guys think?

All hand made from ash wood. Sticks are rived.

This is the first of a set of six for a customer in New York.

We got our hands on a set of 4 Danish Erik Buch teak chairs at an estate sale. We negotiated and got them fairly cheap and our budget is tight (first couples adult apartment) so we said we’d fix them up ourselves.

However, this is our first project like this. The extent of our knowledge is making some cutting boards (lol).

That said, the chairs are in decent shape. Here’s what we think they need: re-gluing the joinery on 2 of them and sanding, oiling, and reupholstering all 4. We’re planning to do the backs a chartreuse knit and the seats in a dark brown leather.

To all the wonderfully talented people on here: how the help do we even start? Taking the chair apart to tackle the joinery and gluing concerns me the most.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Saw the post on Mr Rogers’ model chairs and it reminded me of Wegner’s.

Threw this together in a couple of afternoons. Its not going to win any awards, but it works great for our back yard and as a saw bench. It has a 1-3/4" sycamore top with 1-3/4" walnut legs. Just scraps from other projects. I just need to throw some oil and wax on it and im calling it done.

A stick chair on the left!