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The distance between the legs determines the lengths of the stretchers, so they are turned after the legs and the sockets in the seat are made. ) I make my leg blanks 19½" long, the stump blanks 14" and the short spindle blanks 12". Each of these lengths includes ½"for waste where the blank is attached to the spur drive center of my lathe. Depending on your lathe, you may need to allow more for waste. Each blank also includes a little extra length so that the through tenons will protrude beyond the sockets, making wedging easier.
However, we do not use chairs in an ideal manner. We do not sit bolt upright like West Point cadets at mealtime. We recline and shift and squirm. These forces are transmitted throughout the chair in other directions than just downward. For example, as we shift in the chair to find a comfortable position we create torque, a twisting motion of the seat against the legs. The same force is exerted in a wrestling match. A wrestler does not throw his opponent by pushing downward on his shoulders. He does so by wrenching him sideways.
I establish the angles of the second stump by eye, placing the brace so its axis is a mirror image of the dummy leg. indd 51 51 8/15/13 11:49 AM ESTABLISH THE FLARE AND SLOPE angles of the second stump socket by eye, positioning the brace and bit to mirror a dummy leg inserted in the first stump socket. on bevel squares. Start the hole and then bring the brace into the flare position. Use the plane formed by the axes of the dummy and brace to find the forward slope. Bore about halfway through, check the angles, and then complete the hole.