Sack Back progress

As soon as I got home, it started to rain. So much for working in the yard, not that that was my plan.

I went to the shop to just mess around and ended up making a little progress.

For awhile I have been wanting to make a set of winding sticks. So I made some winding sticks. I had brazilian cherry left over from the dining room table project a couple of years back. The cherry is dense and I think will make great winding sticks. I should have taken a picture.

I used them to line up the arms on the sack back.  A little tinkering and I got the arms set at about the same height.

After getting the  arm posts even, it was time to work on scraping the seat. I started to do this but the legs were not even and the chair kept rocking as I scraped. 




So I stopped and leveled the legs. It didn't take long, well that is not true, it took 18 years to get to it. 


Looking at the picture of one of the legs being cut reminded me that I bought that Japanese back saw to cut dove tails. When I was working on the blanket chest last spring, I tried using it to cut the dovetails, and there were a lot of dove tails to be cut, and it was worthless.(At least for me.) I had been admiring the Lie-Nelson dove tail saw and bought it. I must be a "western" boy because this is how a saw is supposed to work. 

 Then I continued on to the seat, scraping and sanding. Slowly it is starting to get to where I want it. The weather forecast is for rain the rest of the week. That means I will have plenty of time to scrap and sand. Yard work will have to wait.

The arm hoop got some attention last night too. I had glued blocks for the hands, sorry if that is not the right term, and planed them down. They are ready to be drilled and reamed to fit the posts. However, the posts have to be glued first and they are waiting for the seat to be sanded and.....