Black walnut.
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Black walnut.
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What a nice piece Igor! Great use of the grain on the seat!
Something to be well proud of.
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Very nice. Love the style and the wood.
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That is great. What finish? Really nice grain pattern.
Last edited by Brian Kent; 02-09-2012 at 6:58 PM.
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Lovely - and slippery looking too - hold on to your little kids or your tipsy uncle.
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I'd say you did really good on that chair. I sell the Maloof 'boys' ziricote and had been out there recently. I took pictures of all their finished ziricote pieces and thought that I would include a couple of them here for your reference. It's taken them a lifetime studying under a master to be able to produce this stuff and it is truly impressive. You should be very proud of your chair, you did a very good job on it.
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Thank you!
The finish was wet sanding with BLO, then three soaks of BLO+poly+spirits and then shellac and 3 coats wiped of gloss poly+spirits. Maybe I'll wax it, haven't decided yet.
I have never built any chair before so with my first one went a little overboard complexity wise. Also it would help if I bought templates somewhere instead of scaling up rough drawings. Those armrests are my 3rd attempt because of complex angles, the first two sets are in firewood pile now.
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Really nice Igor. I've always loved the way the one piece flows organically into the other at the joints in Maloof's (and Maloof inspired) work. There's a natural elegance to it.
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Very nice chair. I hope my first effort turns out so well.
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Beautiful work Igor!
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Fine, fine work Igor. I actually had the pleasure of creating one similar a number of years ago.
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Really nice work, Igor!
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That is one nice looking chair, Well done Igor.
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