A chair with WINGS! | Mid Century Modern Chair with Walnut Winged Inserts | HW|Designs

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Finally getting back into some furniture. And I dove head first - I find chairs to be the biggest stretch on my skill set, so this project was definitely and effort but I'm super happy with the progress I've made. Plenty more room to grow!

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Voiceover Transcript

How to make, or how I made a chair.

Let’s get into it.

I started with the last of “bois blanc” lumber acquired from our days living in the Congo

Cutting it down to about 20” inch planks to get started on the chair seat.

Then ripping those into roughly 6 inch strips

I then squared all the pieces

After that, I laminated two sets of 3 planks

Once cured, I planed surface variations.

Trimmed them down to square the ends

Then laminated the two plank surfaces together to make a thicker blank for the seat

Again, once cured, I measured and marked the angled dimensions for the seat 14” at the back, and 18” at the front.

Then, using the bandsaw, I cut along the mark lines

With a very old heirloom marking tool, I marked the outer edges of a recess that will later be used to house the walnut spline that will anchor the seat to the legs. .

I then set the table saw blade to the desired depth of the recess, about an inch and a half.

Then, in multiple passes, cut the recess.

To add a little dimension, I then cut a bevel on all four sides of the bottom of the seat.

I then set the seat aside, and turned to the legs.

I went through the same preparation process to square and laminate the lumber to create thicker blanks for the cut pieces.

I started this project with larger, closer to 12/4 pieces for the legs, but made a few major design mistakes on the limited supply and ended up landing here. I’ll go into more detail on the mistakes made in an upcoming Patreon video.

With the blanks read, I ripped them into equal halves to get enough for 4 legs and two stretchers.

Then, cut the ends of the front legs to 13.8 and 4.1 degrees respectively

The back legs at 15.4 and 10 degrees

And the ends of the stretchers at 13.8 and 1.4 degrees.

To create the desired angular profile

Using a jig, I cut a taper on the inside of each leg.


With my two sets ready, I got to work on the joinery.

I chose bridal joints, so using a carving knife I marked the joining surfaces at their intersection for each joint on every piece.

Then marked the cut lines for both the bridle tenon and bridle mortis

Then, with a yet another very old heirloom handsaw, a coping saw and chisel, got to work honing the bridle mortise for the back to stretcher joint.

To do the back leg bridle tenon, I used a combination of the saw, a trim router, and again, a chisel to clear the way.

With a nice snug fit there, I used a similar process to complete the front leg bridle joints

With those joints done, I needed to get the bottom stretcher ready before I could glue everything into place for each leg set.

Using a ¾” x ¾” piece, I asymmetrically beveled the the 90 degree corners on the table saw,

then turned to the lathe, to turn the ½” tenons on either end of the stretcher.

To place them, I dry fit the leg sets, the marked the height of the stretcher mortise.

Using the level marking as my angle guide, I drilled a pilot hole before drilling a ½” through mortise on each leg

Then to get them ready for glue up, I sanded each piece down to finishing level.

Time for glue!


Once cured, I finalized the front bridle joints with 2 oak, ¼” cross tenons, before giving everything another good sand down

With both the leg sets ready and the seat, it was time to turn to anchoring the two together.

I wanted to try out a design I cooked up using a piece of walnut to basically spline the two chair facets together, so I mirrored the recess from the seat on to the stretcher of each leg set.

Then, cut the walnut down to size.

And again, mirrored the inverse of the stretcher recess so that the walnut spline would fit snuggly

To add some design flair, I “finned” the outer exposed edges of the spline

The last component to prepare is again, the lower stretcher. I used the same beveling and tenoning technique on a piece of walnut.

Then measured, marked, and drilled the tenon mortises.

With the components of the chair base all ready, I turned to the last facet, the chair back.

I started with three laminated pieces for the arms and back.