another chair project and a new tool...

[Ajcoholic]

The past two days I had a set of bar stools to make from oak. They are fairly large, and heavy duty and will sit on a 36" base.

The seats of course were cut and carved on the Shopbot, with the mortises done as well for the 8mm loose tenons (Festool Dominos).

I cut the 6 pcs of 1.25" thick red oak on the bot as well, and the mortices on them.

I was also trying out my new Lamello LK5 pressurized glue pot, with various tips. I used am 8mm dowel tip to apply glue to the 8mm mortices. Works excellent - if you are not familiar with the Lamello LK system of tips & tanks etc it is a really slick set up for gluing.

Heres some pics..

[Ajcoholic]

[Ajcoholic]

The size I bought holds a standard gallon jug of glue.

[Bob Eustace]

Beautiful work as usual Andrew! Hows the new dog coming along?

[bobmoore]

Looks great as usual. Do you route the festool mortises that are in the seat carving with a metric end mill or is there a bit from festool that goes in the bot? Bob

[Ajcoholic]

Beautiful work as usual Andrew! Hows the new dog coming along?

Bob, after I lost Gibson in February we havent gotten another dog yet. Im going to keep my eye open for another rescue Vizsla. Right now with the baby and Joseph just turned 4 yrs old we are quite busy anyhow. I miss Gibson a whole lot.

[Ajcoholic]

Looks great as usual. Do you route the festool mortises that are in the seat carving with a metric end mill or is there a bit from festool that goes in the bot? Bob

Nope, I just use a 1/4" end mill - just measured the domino with my calipers and drew it up in Aspire and it worked great without any tweaking. I use a spiral ramp to cut it out, about an inch deep.

Just to clarify my post about the arms - there are 6 pcs in each arm/back assembly as you can see I cut each set from one plank 48" by about 7 1/2". I tacked on a strip of wood on each end, with raptor nails, and held them down as one unit on the vac table - cut out the pcs using some tabs as the boards werent perfectly flat. But as a whole they were held fast to the table.. Worked great.

The arm assembly was glued together using epoxy resin and Domino tenons. Then just rough shaped on the band saw before sanding.

[Brady Watson]

Looks fantastic!

How do we place an order?

-B

[dmidkiff]

I always enjoy seeing your work. You do excellent work. Thank you for posting your process.

[paul_z]

Awesome!!!