Hi, Elia - I was wondering if you'd go into more detail on your experience with Curtis. What'd you do with him, how long did you work with him, how'd you...
I go up and work with Curtis a month or so at a time and stay in the loft of his shop. In the mornings I do work for him (making jigs, riving stock, rubbing...
Just got back in from the shop where I bent the arm rail for a c-arm. I have been working from a photo in Santore's book, the blue-black Rhode Island chair...
I was having problems with symmetry in arm bends likely because I bent first one side, then the other. There would be a slight difference in the arc of the...
Hi Herman, thanks for the reply. I have been trying to do that as well, but the extra heft of this bow and the fact that there are three bends makes it even...
I've always wondered abput limbering. It seems to me like it's usefull on ladderbacks to get a tigher bend on the posts and to make it easier to get the slats...
... I am mostly guessing, based on an old article in Fine Woodworking by Brian Boggs, saying that limbering helped him get tighter bends with less springback....
Dave Sawyer will flex a bend, and return it to the steam as many times as it takes until he thinks it's going to make it. I did this on my last C-arm bending...
... times as it takes until he thinks it's going to make it. Hi Greg; I think I will go with that strategy from now on, doesn't take a whole lot more time to...
... waist ... Hi John, His form has the pinches built into it, and there are a peg holes adjacent to them. After making the main bend around the top of the ...
Hey, nothing like coming into the middle of a conversation. Don't know if I miss the original post, but the limbering idea sound like a additional aid in...
johnjesseph wrote: ... ... Hello, Those are called "Balloon Back" side chairs. I have made a couple of them for Dave. The bending form I used includes...
I put a pinch in the back of mine by using a form shaped like the back I want to achieve. I exaggerate the pinch on the form as there will be some springback....
... Hi Robert, looking forward to an explanation about the form, and particularly looking forward to chair pictures. I hope you will post more than one...
Hi everyone; Greg, the chair looks nice. I wish my bowbacks came out that nice, I'll make a pinched waist form for future chairs. I tried that sort of pinch...
... know ... So ... find ... Dave, how do your bends fail? Seperating? Fracturing inside the bend, or outside the bend? Limbering is stretching or loosening...
I looked at the photo of the form. Are the parts labelled '2', the outer blocks, removable? Otherwise they'd be in the way of the initial bend. Herman...
The bends usually tear out on the outside of the bends. I always try to keep the same level of grain when I rough form the piece, steam for about 45-60 ...
... Yes, you can see in the photo that there are two ~1 inch pegs affixed to the blocks that register the blocks to the base and hold them in place. The blocks...
Hi all; Just curious if anyone on the list here uses anything other than milk paint to finish chairs. I am hoping to experiment with some ideas, and am...
Anyone on the list with a website, please e-mail me or post to the list, I would like to add everyone's site to the links section. Thanks! John Jesseph P.S. ...
... Hello, I prefer to use *anything but* "milk paint", that is if you are talking about the Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company's product. In my opinion, that...
... My wife painted most of the chairs I built (only 4 so far). She used exactly what would have been used by a homeowner 200 years ago, whatever leftover...
A good friend just gave me several walnut and cherry logs. They are cut and stickered and air drying in a out building on my dad's farm. My question to fellow...
... Wouldn't buy one. Weren't any available in 1791. Code the boards or write a date on them. Then wait five or ten years; they should be good to go then....
I still use milk paint, but usually get it from www.realmilkpaint.com This isn't to advertise, but I first tried their stuff a year ago and really liked it,...
... <dalthous@c...> wrote: I am interested in purchasing a moisture meter to check the drying process and wonder if any of you may have any pros or cons about...
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