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Now comes the fun. Once the first initial cut is made, I tape the cut pieces back together so it gives me a flat surface to steady the other side

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If a sharp blade is used, this is a piece of cake

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Now some final shaping

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a little sanding on my oscillating spindle sander

Now for a trip to the lathe for turning the foot, and final sanding

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I don't know how ornate I will go with this because I'm sorta designing this chair from several I've got in mind. We wanted something in the 17th century look, but small and delicate. Rather than go with the typical thick seat frame, I decided to make it narrow and incorporate the knee bracket as part of the rounded front. the legs and front will be morticed and pinned, and so far I've got the major front dry fitted and shaped to what I like.

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I left the apron long and will cut it down once everything is assembled.

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This was a good rainy day!!

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Sure would be nice if I had a pattern to follow. Designing as you go takes forever! All the joints will be hidden pinned tenon's and now trying to get the right back design has taken many erasers

Not quite in its proper place, I guess this design is what will come close to what (I think) I'd like

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I'm toying with the idea of putting some arms on, and I designed this support. Haven't quite decided on keeping it just yet. I still have to round off that skirt and somehow tie it all in so it looks like it belongs

Of course..... the problem with designing as you go is sometimes the first pattern always the one you end up with. When the second one come's around I just trace out some of the previous reverse cut outs. The brackets have a double angle so I'll cut it much like I did with the legs

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Once the first side is cut, then I tape all the pieces together and cut the otherside

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Now to finished the round by hand where the band saw had to stop. The other picture I'm hand cutting the rear seat tenon because its at an angle to fit the one on the back support.

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With the legs pretty close to what I want, now I'm ready for the back splat. Another challenge on the bandsaw. Not only the decorative work to be cut, but also an arch for the lower lumbar that will follow the curvature of the back leg and rail.

Here you can see the two pieces that will be cut, and the curve, then laminated to make one complete piece. These two pieces were grain matched and joined, so it should appear as one board

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Once both halves are cut, I will do the crest that sits on top and yet another challenging piece of bandsaw work. I'll mortice the back splat into the crest, and into the bottom back seat rail.

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With both halves cut, I laminated the two together and then smooth it out on the oscillating spindle sander

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Coming together nicely now...... but not without some waste. It hurts to see all those cherry scraps

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I wanted to slide these 2 pics in for those who don't think Grizzly equipment is not accurate. I'm cutting this rosette, and the pic on the right is the cut I started and finished at. I have to open it with a chisel in order to back it out the same way it came in at its completion. Notice the blade mark and the actual blade, and plumb to the blade the finish piece is. There's about 1/8th" all around clearance, so anything off would never produce an almost perfect cylinder like this

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I finally settled on the crest design. Man....I thought I'd never reach this point I kind liked the Boston Queen style, and Gaines side chair style Crest. I tried to combine the two, and put a little radius in the back frame to make it all conform to the design.

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There will be 2 large rosettes, and 2 smaller one's which I'm leaning to mill from some figured walnut. It ought to look good against the cherry. I also added a small round detail to the edge. I may carve out a small round from bead to bead later.

Got some real nice figured walnut for the rosettes, and put it altogether WOW!

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The splat is morticed in and fitted, now for the back rails into the crest

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Allmost there!

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Getting these arms right are fun. The angles and curves are more than challenging!

Once fitted, I think I'll carve some detail

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This is the tricky part I postponed for last. The side rails has to be rounded to flow into the front leg, but had to start at the rosette joint. In order for all that to happened, the rosette had to be closely fitted to the round of the seat rail, as well as cutting in the round of the rosette end to start the curve.

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Once the basic round was formed, now the rosette outline had to be filed and formed into the rail, so all parts would flow well together.

This is what it looks like finished