A few updates

[Sonny]

5 pics, scroll right.

Progress on the cypress chairs: Shouldn't be too long before I'm ready to start gluing things together..... on 4 chairs only. I haven't been working on the 5th chair. I still need to make 2 sets of arms for the captain's chairs.

Knowing the weakness of cypress, i.e., generally not the best wood for chairs, I don't trust the seat stability (splitting down the middle), so I installed a 17"L X 3"W X 1/2"D dutchman on each bottom-side of the seats.

Picked up two 7" Wilton vises at a garage sale, $5 for the pair. A bit rusty, but functional. I had them sand blasted - $20. They'll go to a nephew (budding woodworker?).

Haven't been in the shop too much, lately. Been watching the Bruins, Celtics and Pelicans.

Sonny

[DerbyDad03]

Very nice!

Pic?

We all have our priorities. ;-)

Go Knights!

[Sonny]

Dutchman install is shown in the first pic on the link.

[Leon]

Very cool, should last forever.

[Rick the antique guy]

Wow Sonny These Chairs are very robust & rugged in design Nice work rick B.

[Sonny]

Thanks, and to everyone else. Yeah, it's robust because cypress is relatively weak, for this sort of construction. Each chair piece is hand carved/shaped.

They will go with this cypress table and bench. The table/bench projects are not hand tool worked, as the chairs have been.

Scroll right for a few more pics.

Scroll right for a few more pics.

Sonny

[OFWW]

Great find on the vises, it looked like a totally good deal.

Great to see the progress on the chairs.