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relief carving is a tricky business being half technical and half creative.(and 1/3 visual trick) the biggest problem for many beginners is escaping the block. it's great to use an easier to manipulate medium like clay or plasticine when doing the design(for releif) or using a chunk rather than...

the price alone against the time taken would give a staggering price in pine. as mentioned earlier this could be made in China for £50. this equates to 2 or so hours. let alone buying materials hinges and the staggering price of decent paint. but it's purpose was to unlock the moving mysteries...

these are rebated beech stiles rails and mrmdf panels glued and 22g branded as the back won't ever be seen

this is the final finish it's really hard wearing pu that is quite happy being sprayed with a hvlp turbine as its quite thin. this had 2 coats. I was definitely happy that I brush textured as the pine wouldn't "lay flat" it's got far to variable grain and it tends to remove the soft and leave...

I usually cut at angle( angled so as to shed water away.) cut the replacement section at similar angle. dryfix then dryflex them in perfect alignment. After it's dry then pop an angled deck screw in.

it's slightly odd and backwards to be introducing brush texture into paint but the final result is great because it breaks up that perfect flawless spray finish but not so it's stringy which is the danger with brush painting. it's really subtle and nice. the top coats are now sprayed on top.

this shows the spray equipment and paint. the first coat and after tipping off the second coat.

here's the first coat of filler primer. the next coat will be brushpainted or better(quicker) is to spray then just tip off with a damp soft brush..

normally with pine things I like to introduce some texture into the surface as pristine finishes and soft pine don't combine well. I plugged all the screw holes and filled many nail holes and blemishes with 2 pack filler. I cut the plugs off and planed them flush once again sanding. finally I...

normally 9mm beadboard preferably pre primed.

love ❤️ those escutcheons

I did consider ways to loose all the woodscrews but they work so well in combination with glue and screws it's quite hard. even my favourite old style square cut nails may have looked better but they wouldn't have held as well in softwood.

next ill show it being painted with gray hydrolux filler primer( water based) then a pu top coat(water based). my boy decided this was his chair and it could help him to reach things( he probably shouldnt)! the reclaimed wood behaved impeccably staying straight and not having many knots. it did...

showing the ( slightly amateurish) gouge lightening.

everything seemed to work OK So I began to shape the back I could tell by trying that the back needed to have more angle than the back upright and sit a little forward. I shaped it by using a useful technique whereby the bandsaw table was angled and a radius marked to follow. the back marked and...

I then thought of a novel way to mark both the edge of the chair and the twin mortices. I basically clamped the back chunk in the correct place on a flat board marked the seat edge and sprayed paint through th e mortices to directly mark there positions. Once again the tenon and fork shoulders...

next I squared up a random chunk of 4 by 4 for the back and made a bit of pine with 360( this was the inside measure) between shoulders with 2 chunky dovetails on either end. these were marked on the bottom of the back legs and the depth gauged. the rear frames were then disassembled(unscrew the...

next is the chair back

I love how everything in pine feels like a student project? it's the sort of project that a factory would knock out for £50 in rubberwood but its a decent challenge to make.

morticing the hinges was a challenge because they need to be sunk as far below the surface as possible otherwise they catch your bum in chair mode! the sinking of the hinges is really critical so slowly slowly catchee monkey. and just try to creep up on a fit. the fit of the chair back and seat...