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    A highchair for our newest grandson

    Our youngest daughter had her first child on May 8. So my wife and I wanted to make a high chair for baby Craig.
    The back of the highchair is Intarsia The high chair is made from hard maple with 6 coats of lacquer. We modified the original plan but making it 3” taller. The original plan’s intarsia was of a puppy rather than a teddy bear, my wife modified the plan to look like a teddy bear. The wood used in the intarsia is aspen, walnut, anigre, sapele and Spanish cedar. My wife and I build everything from rough lumber. She made the cushion too.

    Thanks for looking,
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    John and Mrs., Very, very nice! I have four adult daughters and in the next few years I think I will be making several of these. Very nice indeed. Where did you source the plans and hardware?
    Thank you for posting, Patrick

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    Well......Grandpa and Grandma made an instant family heirloom of incredible beauty! That is gorgeous!
    Ken

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    The plans from a book we have, I will have to check on that. They do sell the plan here The hardware for the tray is from Rockler. We bought the safety strap stuff from a sewing store. We make the tray too, Rockler makes a tray, but when we got it, the quality sucked. So we made our own.
    Hello, My name is John and I am a toolaholic

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    I'm a Grandpa myself and there is nothing more satisfying than creating something they the little one will use, play with, and/or otherwise enjoy. I made a rocking chair for my granddaughter for Christmas last year, and I had never enjoyed making anything as much as I did that horse. The chair is beautiful, the intarsia is impecable. Well done Grandpa, and Grandma too.
    "I've cut the dang thing three times and it's STILL too darn short"
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    That's really nice, great job.
    Don

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    I am sure that will be treasured and passed to future generations.

    Very nice work.

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    John, you and your wife are a team. You both do outstanding work. I can see your new granddaughter using that high chair for her new baby. The intarsia teddy bear really sets it off.

    Outstanding work, Sam

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    That looks fantastic! The only problem that I can see is that the bear is so cute, the little one will keep trying to turn around to see it!

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    wow great team work that high chair looks great

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