It's not like I suffer delusions of grandeur...

[TrollSpiel]

My latest Alaskan miln piece.

 

I started out thinking Lord Elrond, but it soon turned into Sauron the dark lord - which is cooler anyway

 

3 days from milled boards, including the steaming/bending etc.

 

Don't have to tell you boys what wood it is...

[yewhunter18]

Wow really stunning chair I really like that

[TrollSpiel]

A few other views

[Sam Thompson]

Wow:thumbup1:

[Bart]

Amazing chair excelent shape, great work

 

How do you steam the wood?

[TrollSpiel]

Thank you kindly, Yewhunter, Mr.Thompson.

 

That's the meat of the job done - Some gold leaf to go in yet, with a 2-part laminating resin coat (ie, flashy woodfiller). Then wax it up.

[TrollSpiel]

Thanks Bart..

 

steaming,,

 

I welded this one up from stainless last week. You can make simpler versions of the same thing using plastic / and a wallpaper steamer - which is what I use.

 

Hour per inch of timber (thick).

 

The yew can be really hard to bend - being so knotty, you wont compress those knots, the wood just snaps. I snapped 2 for the two backs of the chair. The smaller curves (arm rests) are glued 7mm strips that were steamed and bent.

 

throw all your timber in the jigs you've set up, clamp it down, wait 24hr...

 

I wont say it's simple but it aint rocket science either

[tommer9]

OMFG thats awesome. how much to make me one?

[yewhunter18]

Really impressed with the chair please keep us up to date with the finishing of the chair

[TrollSpiel]

Well Tommer,

 

I ain't made a chair before, nor steamed/bent timber, and if I could get the labour time down, I'd likely sell something like that at 500 a go.