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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 611664, member: 5066"]If you notice, the OP chair has a woven seat instead of the usual period chair "boarded" seat. The boarded seat of period chairs makes this an extremely difficult build. Turners conceit perhaps?</p><p>" To trap the seat board on all three sides, the rails of three-post stools had to be set at the same level. This created a problem, because the tenons entering each post intersected with each other. Makers overcame this problem by using a round tenon at one end of each seat rail and a square tenon at the other end (fig. 8). On each post the smaller round tenon passed through the larger rectangular tenon, creating an interlocking joint. Usually, the round tenons were pinned to prevent them from withdrawing from their mortises. In addition to creating a stronger joint, the rectangular tenons prevented the seat rails from rotating under the weight of the sitter and causing the seat board to slip out of place."</p><p>[ATTACH=full]179839[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 611664, member: 5066"]If you notice, the OP chair has a woven seat instead of the usual period chair "boarded" seat. The boarded seat of period chairs makes this an extremely difficult build. Turners conceit perhaps? " To trap the seat board on all three sides, the rails of three-post stools had to be set at the same level. This created a problem, because the tenons entering each post intersected with each other. Makers overcame this problem by using a round tenon at one end of each seat rail and a square tenon at the other end (fig. 8). On each post the smaller round tenon passed through the larger rectangular tenon, creating an interlocking joint. Usually, the round tenons were pinned to prevent them from withdrawing from their mortises. In addition to creating a stronger joint, the rectangular tenons prevented the seat rails from rotating under the weight of the sitter and causing the seat board to slip out of place." [ATTACH=full]179839[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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