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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #16: Center Back Slat- Part 1
After finishing up the crest rails, I move on to the center back slats. I begin by making up the loose tenon stock I will need. After cutting the stock to width, I fine tune the thickness with the drum...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #17: Center Back Slat- Part 2
With all of the stock cut to length, I’m ready to move to the next step, cutting the mortises and curves. I lay out the center marks for the mortises needed by the Leigh FMT on the ends of one piece....
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #18: Side Slats
With the center slats completed I move to the side slats, arguably one of the most difficult parts of the project. With the center slat already cut, the side slats must be cut very precisely or there...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #19: Preparing Apron Stock, a Router...
With the side slats cut and fit for all the chairs, I turn my attention to preparing the stock for the side and front aprons. I had rough cut the material for these parts a while ago, but had not...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #20: Side Rails and Front Legs-Part 1
Rather than dive into all of the hand work to shape the crest rails now, I decide to finish up cutting the side rails. I rough cut my side rail stock a few weeks ago. Now that it has had time to...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #21: Side Rails and Front Legs-Part 2
With the side rail mortises complete, I move on to cutting the front rails and mortises. The Leigh FMT makes quick work of the remaining mortises. Next I trace the cloud lifts onto the side and front...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #22: Lower Stretchers
I start by cutting the mortises in the legs for the lower side stretchers. I then cut the mitered ends on the side stretchers and fit the length. With the side stretchers fit I move on to cutting the...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #23: Rounding Parts and Establishing...
With the lower stretchers rough cut and the cloud lifts formed, I move on to some of the detail work. First, I round over the edges of the lower stretcher parts with a 1/8” round over bit in the router...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #24: Plug Locations and Square Holes-...
With my plug locations established, I move on to drilling the holes and cutting the square plug holes. I set up stops on the drill press and drill the clearance holes in the front legs, back legs and...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #25: Crest Rail Final Shaping
In February I was in Pasadena and took the opportunity to visit the Huntington Library Museum, which houses many Greene & Greene pieces. The museum holds one of the living room chairs from the...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #26: Shaping and Sanding
It’s been a while since I posted an update on this project, largely because I spent most of the summer shaping and sanding. Pretty boring stuff but I thought I’d post a few progress pictures anyhow....
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #27: Back Splat Splines
With all of the hand shaping and sanding of the chair parts out of the way, the next step is to fabricate the ebony splines and cut the recessed grooves in the back splats to accept the splines. I...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #28: Chair Assembly
I do the chair glue up in several stages. First, I glue up the front legs and rail into one sub-assembly. Since the outside edge of the front leg is angled to match the side rail, I use wedges on my...
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #29: Corner Bracing and Slip Seats
With the chair assembled , the next step is to fabricate and install the corner braces and slip seats. To get the miter angles accurate for the corner blocks, I use a Bora MiteriX angle duplicator....
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #30: Stain and Finish
With the slip seats out at the upholsterer, I focus on staining and finishing the chairs. First I set up my temporary spray booth, which consists of heavy plastic sheeting held up with zip wall poles....
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Greene & Greene Gamble House Side Chair #31: Final Wrap Up
Here are the project totals, for those that are interested. Board feet of Sapele used: 3154’ x 8’ sheets of 3/4” baltic birch plywood: 2Number of chair parts fabricated: 285Number of mortises:...
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Greene & Greene Thorsen Sideboard #1: Design work and upskilling
Now that my Thorsen inspired dining table and Gamble House inspired chairs are completed, it’s time to tackle the Thorsen sideboard. Those that have visited the Huntington Library’s Greene & Greene...
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Greene & Greene Thorsen Sideboard #2: Bolection inlay class
The bolection inlay class at Marc Adams School of Woodworking was well worth the 10 hour drive. Reid Eric Anderson taught the class over a weekend. The class project was a small portion of the inlay...
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Greene & Greene Thorsen Sideboard #3: Sideboard Design
For the design work on this sideboard, I start by purchasing a copy of the original Greene & Greene drawing for the Thorsen House Furniture from the digital archives at USC. There are no...
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Greene & Greene Thorsen Sideboard #4: Material Prep
With my design work essentially complete, it’s time to start rough cutting the Sapele for the solid wood parts. I start with the lower stretchers. Using the pattern routing templates, I lay out the...
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