Carving Seat Contour

[bugbear]

Thanks for all your responses - really very helpful- there is a lot to consider. My tool budget is not very healthy at present so I need to spend carefully.

Cheapest way is to "make do" with the biggest gouge you own,. or can get cheap second hand.

But, if you have a grinder and/or angle grinder, you should be able to buy and modify (as per Alf) a Stanley #51 or similar for around a fiver + lots of time.

BugBear

 

[engineer one]

having belatedly bought the latest issue of good woodworking
number 186.
there is a decent article about seat shaping by James Mursell.
covers all that we have discussed before.

paul :wink:

 

[Gaz_XB9R]

Speaking of grinders, there was a guy on the TV that used a 4" grinder with a wheel that looked like a cup with bits out of the rim for shaping wood.
It was the guy making the table that looked like a hippo surfacing ie top of head above sheet of glass and body below which gave the support for the glass.
Just a thought. Don't know how much one of those wheels would be or how much material it removed at a time.

Gaz

 

[engineer one]

think that was an arbortech.

paul :wink:

 

[woodshavings]

Bought the inshave as suggested by Philly. Project finished now
https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/view ... hp?t=16161,
In the end, the seat contour was very shallow, so did not really need the inshave. However, next project will be a childs chair ...
Thank again for all your help.
John