The Kitchen Chair - Creating the Design

I have always loved little wooden kitchen chairs and finally had some time to work on a design.  What makes these chairs great is their simplicity and compact size.  The challenge also, is their simplicity and compact size.  I was inspired by a little wooden chair that I found last year but I did scale it a bit bigger and taller but smaller than my other designs. 

For this design, I used the a 3D CAD program to draw up and design the seat pattern and a hand held CNC computer guided router to cut out the pattern.  

The chair itself will be made mostly with hand tools. I will offer this design for sale but I also plan to create a class where students will build this chair.  Therefore all of the shaping of the seat will be done by hand.

The spokeshave and hand plane will work the outside of the seat and at this point, I am debating leaving tool marks or smoothing some sections further with sanding.

I chose to make the legs similar to my other chairs, but skinnier, as were the legs of many antique kitchen chairs. 

 

Stay Tuned for progress on this design.

Spring is coming,

Tim