Lolling Chair in Honduran Mahogany

Wow what a nice job I see the cat loves it to

-- Jim, Kentucky

very well done

-- Thos. Angle

very, very nice.. turned out great!

-- David - Houston, Texas.

It turned out beautiful. Norm made it look so easy. I have thought about doing upholstering but thought I might wait a bit longer. It is a beautiful chair. Wonderful project.

-- Greg - Charles Town, WV

Gorgeous!!!!!

Congrats, that is a fine looking chair.

Matt you did a great job on the chair.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

What a great looking chair.

-- Dustygirl..Hastings,Ontario.. How much wood can 1 gal chuck if 1 gal can't cut wood?

Matt,

Excellent job on the lolling chair. Looks like you got the proportions just right. Did you take patterns off an original or did you just scale it off a photo? If you didn’t have access to an original, or plans from an original, then you’ve sold yourself short by saying the joinery was the toughest part of this project.

The upholstery looks very good too. Since it sounds like you laid the foundation, you did a good job of keeping it flat and tight to the frame, which is the way a chair like this would have originally been upholstered. It’s very easy to keep stuffing the chair so it looks like a sausage but it looks like you got it just right.

Keep up the great work!

-- Chuck Bender, period furniture maker, www.acanthus.com

Thanks for the compliments guys! Once again, this is a New Yankee Project. There are certain pieces that Norm builds that really appeal to me, this chair being one of them. When he reproduces something like this and a DVD, it’s hard not to go for it.
Chuck, although the New Yankee plans are pretty good, this one was not. You have to always read between the lines, and interpret the cut lists, and the patterns. When I’m ready to start building, I generally take a ride over to Fedex Kinko’s to get the patterns enlarged. There is a lady there who always gets it just right, and I believe it’s a scale of 199.9%. It worked on the Highboy, Lowboy, and now the Lolling chair.
As far as having one to pattern off of, I’ve looked extremely hard here in Houston to find period furniture. The closest I’ve found was an estate auction. This lady had a serious collection including a cherry flat top highboy. That thing had solid one piece panels on it. It was a great piece!
I tell you, I couldn’t have made this chair without a bevel gage to set the saw blade up. That tool is a great investment!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

This chair is great , Matt. I like the fabric too . It goes well with the design and color of the wood : )

-- You know you're getting old when you know the difference between you're (you are) and your (belonging to you) AND how to use them in a sentence .