A week of 5.20-5.24

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Made mortises on legs and moldings for brackets and Installed moldings and brackets.



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Made a seat rail.
Add glue blocks for posts.
Smoothed and made flush by a hand scraper.
Finally, applied shellac on the chair.



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I decided to stop working.
This is the last scene from my workbench at the NBSS.
I'll pack my stuffs and make crates for my furniture next week.

Trip to Atlanta

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We celebrated Bia's graduation, by taking pictures.
Another happy moment.



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Went to an aquarium in Atlanta and saw a whale swam with her two babies.

A week of 5.13-5.17

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Back of the crest rail was shaped.
Legs and front rail were glued up, and the first part of glue blocks were glued and flushed by planing.
Legs and front rail assembly and side rails were glued up and the second part of glue blocks were glued and shaped.



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We went to a small museum to learn how a chair can be measured.



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Waist moldings and brackets were made.
I started joinery of the moldings and brackets, but could not finished it.

I had to leave for Atlanta to see my family.
Time in NBSS is running out. I just hope I can finish my current two projects in time before graduation.

A week of 5.06-5.10

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Made string inlay on legs, stopped dadoes and lap joints on drawer dividers, and dry fitted desk parts.



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Glued desk side assemblies, applied doublers, and check straightness and flushness.
Glued up desk.



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Sequentially install desk structural parts including drawer guides, runners, kickers, and screw blocks.



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The jewel-like enameled drawer pull hardwares of the original Seymour desk were manufactured in Bilston, England.
However the company does not make them anymore, and I could not find any source for them.
I decided to make them by myself.

Brock Jobe, a professor of the Winterthur Museum, kindly sent the images of the drawer pulls of the original Semour desk at my request.
I made plaster domes, and made fake enamel paintings by decoupaging the images on the plaster domes.
Joan Parcher made brass hardware for the drawer pulls for me.

Everyone, including Lance, was very delighted to see this beautiful reproduction of the drawer hardwares.



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Spent some time to catch up chippendale chair making.
Fitted and dry assembled legs.

A week of 4.29-5.03

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Valances and a secret drawer were installed.



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Desk joinery was made.



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Thin shading was made on a hot straight edge, and gallery pilasters were made and installed.



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Bellflower inlay was made.



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Leg pilaster inlay was done.



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Thickness-scraped string inlay to 33/1000" and cut width to 1/8".