Signing day! Now, in three hundred years, these chairs will be worth a fortune on Antiques Roadshow…
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Final assembly day! There’re still finish sanding and sealing to do but those aren’t jobs for young lungs. We’re installing the arms. Me: “Henry these bolts that thread into the T-Nuts require an allen wrench, so that’ll be a new tool today.” Hen: “Yeah I know that tool from adjusting my bike seat.” Me: “Well […] We’re gettin’ there. Installing the seat slats today. And jeesh, from the sarcasm here you’d think there were a thousand of these wood plugs to glue in, not just 240… We’re attaching the chair backs today. Here at the sawmill we pride ourselves on work place ergonomics, ya know, for child labor… We are the Adirondack chair-back assemblers. The few. The proud. The skilled. The anxious to go play… It’s too hot and humid for heavy physical work in the sawmill today. So we’re taking it easy with a delicate (aka tedious) task. Gluing wood plugs into screw counterbores. But it’s a perfect day for paddling the glass canoe on the pond for this first time… […] Well we’re getting started. I cut out some boards and tacked them together. Now the boys are in their wheelhouse, driving screws and wrenching nuts and bolts. We’ve elected to use white oak for the frames and black cherry for the seating areas, not because that’s our design aesthetic, but because here we use what […] Today we’re starting a new summer project. Four Adirondack chairs! The boys are learning about a plan and a template. They couldn’t be more bored with this first step… |
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