... for the chair backs:
Mill/Layout/Cut Parts on Cut List 24.25 Setup/route Mortises 32.00 Initial sand/surface preparation 11.75 Glueup 10.25 78.25
... or about 13 hours per chair thus far.
(Expensive wood (QSWO) makes for a careful fella ... and that's "spare" time, folks ... during the month of 9/06, between putting the finishing touches on one house, and getting another off the ground).
Gotta find something more relaxing to do for grins ... maybe pukey ducks, or sleep?
Too bad that now the _real_ work starts ... final sanding and finishing. (ugh!)