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    Chair Steps Project

    Some more progress today. After cutting up the board into pieces for the seat and steps of the chair I planed off the old finish: The cleaned up boards were just under 7/8" thick. I now knew the width I had to make the housings in the legs for the steps. I set to work on the front legs with...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks. Yes it is very pleasant to work. I have just started to cut up the top of an old dressing table to make the seat and steps: I was interested to see that this piece has "chalky" inclusions:
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    Chair Steps Project

    Here is a dry assembly of the front legs and their associated sloping legs and top rails. It is all starting to look more like a chair now: This gives some idea of how it should be like in steps mode (the small blocks are to represent the thicknesses of the seat components):
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    Chair Steps Project

    I have made a bit more progress. Here is a dry assembly of the back legs and other components of the back: And here the sloping legs and associated top rails are added:
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    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    I think you mean one of these: I can confirm that they are no use on wood but do work for their intended purpose of making holes in lead pipes for branch connections:
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    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    I made the transverse holes in the handle block with the drill press and the axial hole with the wood lathe. I cut the threads on the steel rod on the lathe using a tailstock die holder. To make the hole in the brass rod I used the drill press, starting with a small centre drill and using a...
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    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    Very nicely done. It was interesting to see how you overcame difficulties and found solutions. I hadn't thought of using it with a countersink bit - I must try that.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks. I made the scratch stock many years ago and never got round to making a fancy one. I think I kept on adding screws until I got a good grip on the blade :) Yes, I used a breast drill because the chucks of my "egg beater" style drills don't open up enough to hold a 3/8" bit. I have the...
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    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    I find they are quite different to machine. Brass produces very fine particles whereas bronze gives long springy wire-like cuttings.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Well, I started preparing wood in early September and there is still a way to go :)
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    Chair Steps Project

    Here we have a trial dry assembly of the components of the back of the chair. There a lot of mortice & tenon joints in this job :) Marking the positions of the mortices in the back legs:
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    Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

    I did a quick trial and found that I could make holes up to 7/8" diameter using auger bits but 1 1/4" was too much and I didn't even attempt using expanding bits :) I found that a pilot hole of about 1/8" diameter was needed. As you would expect, it is much slower than using a brace but it was...
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    Chair Steps Project

    I compared the designs of the two chairs and decided to adopt the lower rails from the Lisbon one.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Well spotted!. Yes, they are intentional. They should provide a bit of extra strength and keep the legs firmly in their intended position. I think they will also be helpful with my intended method of glue-up, as I hope to show.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Ah - my apologies to Rob!
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    Chair Steps Project

    Here we have some dry assemblies to test that the parts will go together. Obviously, some overlength bits will need to be cut off. It was one of AndyT's valuable tips to leave the full size stubs at the lower ends of the front legs until a late stage. I still need to cut the housings to...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Again following AndyT's example, I worked beads in the top rails using a scratch stock:
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    Chair Steps Project

    That's a very neat fix. I had a bit of difficulty of my own with the triangular infill piece. It is supposed to be dowelled to the adjacent pieces. I am not good with dowels but I set to work with a dowelling jig, making a pair of holes in a back leg and a pair of holes in Item C...
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    Chair Steps Project

    With all the handling of the front legs, some of the edges were getting rather chipped so I cleaned them up with a small chamfer: The sloping mortices were a bit tricky to cut. It was not easy to get the waste out of the acute corner: It was easy to make a mistake. Here I am cheerfully...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks. Very kind of you to say so.
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