(Pictured is the table and conceptual drawing for the chairs.)

I started off with some beautiful 8/4 (2”) Cherry from my

favorite local hardwood supplier White’s Unfinished furniture.

After careful inspection and some alone time with said lumber

I was able to layout the pattern for the back legs.

Now that I had a traced the shape of the legs I could start to rough cut them to prepare for the final shaping.

And after a whole lot of this I end up with this.

18 rough cut legs (two extra for safety, for those of you counting.) later, I can start to shape the legs to final dimensions. Utilizing a template and the very high tech, and might I mention extremely expensive blue carpet tape I use my router table to make every thing nice and smooth. After some fine tuning with my hand planes, these legs are ready.

Look everyone it’s the worlds most complicated game of Jenga. Build em’, stack em’, just don’t whack em’.

No it’s chair parts. Some dingle didn't bring the camera so you can’t see how I made this excellent tower, but I will show you how I put a curved bevel on the top rail

    With this Handy dandy jig. The first step which is very important is to cut the 17.5 degree angle on one edge of our top rail. This jig has a few things going on, first you can see the curved profile that our patter bit will follow. Second those screws on the inside edge hold the board up at, you guessed it 17.5 degrees. Once I clamp it in place I can take it to the router table and viola. You can see the finished part in the upper left corner of the photo.

    There's a few steps I neglected to mention and or take pictures but it’s late, so I’ll just show you the back portion together. Tune in next week same bat time, same bat channel.