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    Chair Steps Project

    I planed the tops of the front legs flat with a small low angle plane: The design calls for a dovetailed joint between the short side top rail and the front leg - presumably this is to avoid the weakness of two tenons intersecting inside the top of the leg. I made the joint as a tapered...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Shaping the lower ends of the front legs:
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    Chair Steps Project

    I removed the waste from the tapered parts of the from legs by bandsaw without using the fence: I propped up one end to get it to the correct angle for cleaning up with the router plane:
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    Chair Steps Project

    I used an in-cannel gouge to carve curved transitions between the sections of the leg:
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks. Yes, the brass is to protect the edge during levering. I have made 1/4" and 3/8" wide ones so far. They seem to be quite effective against moderate leverage, although they won't save the edge if it is too brutal. They are very quick and easy to make.
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    Chair Steps Project

    I started work on the front legs by making a series of shallow cuts, with tape on the saw as a depth guide: Then I chiselled out the waste between pairs of cuts: And finished the "trenches" using a router plane: Then I removed the waste between trenches using the bandsaw: And cleaned up...
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    Chair Steps Project

    The front legs are turned in the original and I set out to turn one. I was not pleased with the result and I thought there was a poor chance of getting a second matching one before running out of wood, so I decided to follow Andy's example and make square section ones instead. I should mention...
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks. I find the depth gauge very useful and you are very welcome to copy it.
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    Chair Steps Project

    It came to me without a motor. I obtained a sewing machine motor, made a pulley for it and contrived a mounting arrangement. It has model engineer (ME) threads and has presumably been made by a skilled amateur.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Well, I had never heard of the brand when I saw the plane for sale in a second hand tool shop for £15. Overcome by curiosity, I took a risk and bought it. It turned out to have a flat sole and it only needed a slight honing before I was making good shavings. The frog is adjustable but there...
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    Chair Steps Project

    It is fairly easy to plane. There can be some bands of opposing grain but nothing like as bad as say sapele.
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    Chair Steps Project

    The back legs of the chair have a sort of "boomerang" shape, so each one had an easy and a less easy sawn surface to be planed. Here a Mohawk Shelburne jack plane is being used on the "easy" side: This Slater bullnose plane was just the thing for getting into the angle on the "less easy" side:
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    Chair Steps Project

    Yes, an electric motor. AndyT also has a Barnes but with treadle drive. Although ancient they can do useful things, including ball turning and cutting very coarse thread.
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    Chair Steps Project

    They are described in this article in the Lathes UK website: https://www.lathes.co.uk/barnes/index.html
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks. I found all my pig stickers as rusty objects with broken or missing handles. Making the handles is not difficult.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Yes, a Barnes No. 5, probably late 19th Century. Originally, it would have had treadle or "velocipede" drive.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Following AndyT's example, I made the central mortices in the back legs before cutting them out of the rectangular blanks. The "pig sticker" chisel in use. Checking the depth. Finishing with a firmer chisel. Cutting the legs out with the bandsaw.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Thanks for your comments. I am using mahogany reclaimed from old furniture and from pieces given to me some years ago. I began by sawing and planing a lot of the parts to the required widths an thicknesses, leaving them a bit over long.
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    Chair Steps Project

    This is the design I am following - it was found by Andy in an old book.
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    Chair Steps Project

    Some years ago (in 2012, I think), AndyT posted a most interesting WIP in Another Place about making a chair that converts instantly to a set of steps, useful in a library or study for accessing the upper shelves of a bookcase. A few years later, whilst on holiday in Lisbon, I saw a rather...
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