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I love my job! When you get to work on projects like this it makes all the headaches of running a business almost seem worth it. "Can you remake our old Scandinavian chairs", "Sure," I replied. Her husband wouldn't let her throw out their originals which had been passed down by grandparents because they were so comfortable… the chairs that is, not the grandparents. So we made some minor modifications to the design and built her a couple. Just in the nick of time too, I sat in one of the old ones the other day, it broke and I nearly broke my @#$. If you know what I mean. Anyhoo I replaced the original jointery with some strong and attractive Maloof style chair joints and walla. I got the chance to build a dowel making jig I've been dreaming up. I should put that on here one of these day too, it works mighty slick! These babies are made out of cherry, (hence the throw back tune for the title) and finished with good ol tong oil. A friend of mine did the upholstery.

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Outstanding work. Very clean. I love it!
 

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Great work Rogue. I wouldn't mind having these myself.
 

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good looking modifications to the original design, really gives them some clean lines.
 

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what a grand piece this is, yes you were a lucky man, i love cherry, its very inviting of coarse your choice of joinery is a classic,is the maloof style which is so strong..i hope you will get more things to build that make you happy,,,very good project,grizz
 

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Great job! Glad you enjoyed doing it and hopefully will get good use out of the dowel making jig.
 

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Beautiful chairs. I like that you improved the joinery from the original version.
 
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