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You could make a slightly upward curved wood laminated arc, the way the romans used to do. Roman stone arcs are still standing after a couple of millennia, there must be a good reason.... In this case the posts might be tensioned with a steel cable under the arc, to avoid them from collapsing...

Ciao Jcassidy, Thank you for writing. Unfortunately, I am pretty far from building a chair. I lack the required space for a shavehorse, for riving and splitting greenwood, not to talk about the difficulties of sourcing green wood or the space for the required systems for steam bending and...

Thanks rob1693, The tenon cutter worked ok but I eventually improved it to the MAKE II. The MAKE I is based on a web page of Peter Galbert. The cutting angle was a little steep though, and in some oak tenons I cut, it showed a tendency to tear the wood fibers. I subsequently retrofitted to the...