| Project by RedBeard | posted 184 days ago | 766 views | 0 times favorited | 12 comments |  |
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This is a chair that I built a few years ago in a Chair Design class at the University of Cincinnati School of Design. It consists of two massive Walnut glue-ups connected by a heavy-duty finger joint. I created a 3D file for the tufting effect, and had the blocks cut on the schools new CNC Router. The buttons were made by hand and applied y hand. The base and arm supports are poplar wrapped in hand dyed leather to complete the material reversal. All in all there are 16 mortise and tenon joints, and the piece weighs a hundred pounds or more. Despite how it appears, its actually quite comfy.
-- Measure once, cut twice
12 comments so far
kolwdwrkr
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posted 184 days ago
Very nice! At first glance it looks like leather. Pretty cool. Looks heavy
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GaryK
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posted 184 days ago
It does look like leather doesn’t it?
Great looking job!
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kjnwdwrkr
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posted 184 days ago
Very cool chair.
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Les Hastings
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posted 184 days ago
Kewl,,,Awesome job!
-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)
dustyal
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posted 184 days ago
wow… impressive…
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DaleM
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posted 184 days ago
Very good effect. I was fooled until I read your post and went back and looked. I’m guessing you were primarily going for something different, but I’m also guessing you were happy it turned out to be comfortable anyway. Really cool.
-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY
a1Jim
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posted 184 days ago
Hey Red
This is a very cool idea very well done most excellent workmanship
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Splinterman
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posted 183 days ago
Very well done.
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jockmike2
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posted 183 days ago
If I only had a CNC. You have gone over the top with this design. I love walnut anyway, but this is just too much. An awesome work of functional art.
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ND2ELK
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posted 183 days ago
You do some very nice work. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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mmh
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posted 183 days ago
What a neat challenge. Nicely done.
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warnimct
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posted 182 days ago
I thought this looked familiar when i was going through some of the recent projects, I remember seeing this when it came off the KOMO. I liked it then and still do, very nice project.
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