Help with sculpted tool seats...

YorkshireStewart talks about the chair seat of he did for the 2×4 challenge. Not sure if this is what you were looking for

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Sam Maloof has a tried a true system where he uses a half dozen planks and forms part of the shape in the positioning of the pieces and part by systematically sculpting the pieces with the band saw.
There is also a method where you can use a cradle jig and a router to sculpt the seats.
Check Bill Hyltons books (woodworking with the router pg 207) – Amazon if you like

Cheers
Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Bill Kappel’s rocking chair plans describe cutting the blocks for the seat from 8/4 lumber with a bandsaw, but I’ve seen other suggestions that involve an XY table for a router that has the appropriate curves in the rails.

(By the way, I strongly recommend going to Bill Kappel's web site and poking around ‘til you find the “free rocking chair plans” link and following those instructions. It’s a fantastic document, and if I thought my floors could handle a rocking chair I’d seriously consider taking one of his “build your own” workshops…)

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

I make traditional windsor chairs…...is that the type of look you are after? Click on my site below and see a chair being built. Hope that’s what you wanted.

-- Kevin -- (http://www.furniturebykevin.com)

Norm Abrams recently created a sculpted seat for a Windsor chair in New Yankee Workshop. It shows the dimension logic, the tools and how to do it.

-- Adapt, improvise, overcome

many books on chair building touch on this.

-- making sawdust....