Our workshop has a partial second floor and my Misses intends to take our son's painting and various other handicrafts activities out from our kitchen and up there... so here.. in the shop ;-) . So I've started a table and a chair for him to work on. I plan on doing a few more chairs and or stools for his mates may they want to join in.
The table top and mitered apron are made from a cutoff Baltic Birch plywood sheet and for the legs I glued up some Spruce construction timber.
When we were building our house we had to cut a big Oak tree from the yard as it was doomed to fall down and might have caused danger in the next few years, according to a cities arborist that came upon request to review the situation. The tree was of such size (about 50 cm in diameter from the stem all the way up to about 9 meters high before branching into smaller parts) that I decided to take it to a sawmill and let it be cut into various size boards. The boards have been air drying for a bit over one and a half year now and since some weeks I have had some boards laying around the shop too. For a chair I selected one crooked piece with huge knots that I planed and thicknessed and cut up into parts equal sized parts. For the seat and back rest I used Padouk as that is too what I have around. Love the stuff.
Front legs with floating tenon joinery glued and in clamps.
The back rest and legs in clamps.
Here's the plywood aprons already attached to the top and the Spruce legs installed. Sanding followed rounding the edges, Etc.
Here's the finished chair. It still glosses as paraffin oil was just applied. Maybe later I'll apply some hand rubbed beeswax, maybe not.
I really like the Oak grain popping.
The table got a Tikkurila Supi Saunasuoja finish in the color black. (It's commonly used in sauna's here)
We had it laying around and as it is a water borne acrylate finish that can take water and should easily wipe dirt off... That's what I settled with.
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