Comments on: April Comes Between Thanksgiving and New Years

By: Gene Reynolds

Gene Reynolds — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:18:56 +0000

Looking forward to the April issue.

Who do we have to bribe to have a matching ottoman and side table included?

Gene

By: Bob Lang

Bob Lang — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:48:23 +0000

The last Morris Chair project we published was in July 2003. Perhaps you have us confused with another magazine. I believe this will be worth the read.

By: Chris C

Chris C — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:28:05 +0000

But Popular Woodworking has ALREADY published a plan and article
on a Morris chair in the past. Why do we need another one when
there are so many other forms to explore that have NOT been published?

Chris

By: megan

megan — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:47:20 +0000

Chuck,
You need "Pillows, Cushions & Tuffets" from one of our sister sites:

(really, I just wanted to use the word "tuffets")

By: Bob Lang

Bob Lang — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:38:28 +0000

Greg-originals were steam bent, but that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use a lamination. When I get to the back rails of this one I will laminate the curves.

Tom-You’ll have to wait for a really thorough and detailed explanation of making an electronic drawing or model from a photo. We should have exactly that sometime next year. For now, you can import an image in SketchUp from the file menu. Those are jpegs that I scaled to full size and rotated to orient them. There’s a lot more to it than that, much depends on the quality of the photo and finding places in the photo to measure with some degree of accuracy.

My wife and I are in negotiations regarding the cushions. If she gets the right new sewing machine for Christmas we will probably do some online stuff about the cushions. Don’t know at this point if we’ll have much room in the printed issue.

By: Tom Erbaugh

Tom Erbaugh — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:41:01 +0000

Bob,
I have been wanting to do just this operation with SketchUp! I know you do something similiar in your SketchUp video and it is probably the same operation just a different file extension. Will you have an explaination of how you imported the picture into the model in the project article?

Thanks

By: Greg M

Greg M — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:31:10 +0000

I’ve been contemplating just such a project, and the bow arm is more appealing to me. Did the Stickleys use a laminated construction for the curved arms?

By: Bob Lang

Bob Lang — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:09:02 +0000

The Gus Stickley bow arm is simpler in construction, two horizontal rails connect the legs front to back exampleL.& J.G. Stickley made a bow arm that was similar to this example

By: Blaine

Blaine — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:43:35 +0000

Luckily, I can now cross "tuffets" off my woodworking bingo card.
A Morris Chair is the next major project I want to tackle, but mine will be of the bow arm variety. Other than the obvious curves, are the guts of the chair you’re making and the bow arm pretty similar?
I’m looking forward to the article.

By: Chuck Nickerson

Chuck Nickerson — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:40:58 +0000

Does this mean we can look forward to companion articles on upholstery/cushion-making?