Before and after

Realizing that each entry pushes the old ones further down the list I though it would be nice to repost photos of the table and chest I recently completed with before and after shots. Here they are. For a look at the whole process you can scroll down the sites to my previous entries.

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Upholstering the side chairs

After the chairs were glued and cleaned I recovered the seats with new fabric that the customer picked out. I have shown the process and the finished product below.

The first step was to remove the old fabric .

The new fabric is measured and cut.
The fabric is tacked to the seat.

Tacks are removed and staples put in place. After the cuts are made black polyester fabric covers the underside of the chairs.

The comleted seat on the chair which has been cleaned and waxed.

Reproduction Queen Anne Side Chairs

A customer brought me a set of 5 reproduction queen anne side chairs. These chairs were only built in 1996, but they had had several owners and had seen better days. The Photos below show the gluing of the chairs.
To properly glue a chair, the loose joinery must first be taken apart and cleaned of all of the old glue.

The five chairs having been reglued. The chairs are clamped with band clamps.

Patching a Broken Foot

Here are some photos of a table I am working on now. The first thing I had to do was to repair the broken foot. This was done by patching in new wood (cherry) on either side of the break. This gives the break more strenth which is good since the foot gets all of the weight!

The Break in the leg

Initial gluing of the breakPathes dry fit into place before trimming
Gluing the patches in place

the finished product

Here are photos of the Chest and Table finished. A little research on the table design places it in the American Empire period (ca. 1840-1860) Each piece has paste wax applied to the finish to protect the French Polish underneath

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French Polishing the chest and table

Here are some pictures of the chest and the table during the finishing process. Each coat is put on very thin and then abraided once it has dried. The packaging tape around the runners is to keep finish from gettting on the runner system.

Cherry Finial

A fellow woodworker came to me recently and asked me to turn a flame and urn finial for the headboard of a bed he was building. He said that he would handle the carved elements but asked me to do the turning. He provided the following template and a cherry turning blank. The first step in the process was to turn the blank into a cylinder. the blank was large enough to accomodate two turnings so I turned the whole blank so I would have a back up in the event of a mistake.Below is a photo of the blank turned to a rough cylinder.After completing the urn section, I turned most of the flame part. the next step was to sand as much as possible before removing the blank section . The last step would be finishing the flame tip, sanding the rest of the piece and turning down the tenon at the bottom. This is saved for last because it is the thinnest part of the turning and because of it's location in the finial, the weakest. Below is a photo of the completed turning, sanded and ready for carving, The Finial will get finished later after the carving is completed.