Chair Club part 1

There are some key rules in Chair Club. The first rule is that Chair Club is not open to new members - we are sorry for this but hopefully this Chair Club will inspire another chair club!

We have met and made chairs on Tuesday evenings for the past 4/5 months, often followed by a Street Food Chef burrito. Chair making is hungry work.

The second rule is Chair Club is not exclusive to chair making. Now that we have reached the penultimate session - my "milking stool" (four legged so it doesn't technically qualify) is almost ready for an oil finish - we are speculating about season two of Chair Club, and it might involve metal, and creating non-functional things.

Here's a short diary of Chair Club, in pictures; myself, Kira Askaroff and the brilliant Richard Bartle, chieftain of Chair Club.

Part 1 

Preliminary sketches done, I decided to make a short stool for my bedroom dresser, akin to a milking stool but four legged.

Kira opted to create a miniature chair, inspired by a series of miniature furniture that Richard made for a previous project Deities at the Bottom of the Garden (a series of twelve exquisitely and accurately rendered scale models of a typical garden shed, each containing the interior of a different temple or church).

We selected our materials - mine combines various woods on the surface which will be sanded flat, and the leg joints will be visible on top too. 

Woods; Rose wood, panga panga, multi layer plywood

Glueing the various pieces of timber down.