#pinechair

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pine sculpture chair 2 hand carved ebonized pine 38X13"

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Conclusion to piece.

So the Pine chair was glued and sanded and waxed over the coming week, I learnt so much with this piece. especially about material usages and joinery. I now hate all curved work and Pine, as well as chairs. I Have also decided that accepting the fact that it is an industrial timber (that is young, soft and weak), Pine is not really a very good option if your wanting to make furniture out of timber for a cheaper outcome.

I felt that if I was to make the same chair in a traditional wood working timber it probably would have come out at about the same price.

The reason for this is that in order to get any appropriate strength out of the pine it needs to be laminated, this means a lot of machining time and a lot of material wastage that goes up the extractor is dust. The other thing is that if you are purchasing the pine from Bunnings, the material usually has knots all through it, making an already weak timber weaker. If you do scrounge through the pile you will have to pull out all of the good material and if there is none then you are going to have to make all of your cuts around the knots. Due to these reasons you end up using large amounts of material.

The Pine chair would have used about 15 lengths of 2400 4"x2". So if I had used a traditional cabinetry hard wood, it may have been more expensive but I would have used about a third of the amount. 

[eacstudiolog]

The Back Slats...

I wanted the chair to have a 'soft' back, so the slats were layered in sets of 3 cut at 3mm each, as pressure is applied from the back of a person, the slides would give under the pressure and slide along one another. The slats were dry mortised 20mm's into each side of the laminated side rails. This depth of mortise allows plenty of space for movement meaning the slats would not fall out under considerable pressure.

Once the mock of was completed and sat it, It was realized that although the slats did give way under pressure it was still a firm siting position. I decided to lay the Mock up on its back and sit on the slats to see how much weight they could take, and they managed to take my weight with out any trouble at all. It was now that I altered the design of the back/seat base, For the final piece I would have the layered 3 mm slats in the base and have floating vertical slats for the back, these would enter a large section of Pine at the base of the chair and give to the weight of someones back, molding to the sitters back. This idea was not a new idea however, it was just a revised design of one previously seen in Chrystel Hadiwibawa's cement chair 'P1'  

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Independent Work Proposal - 'Inspired by China'

The design task set for second semester, 2010, was an Independent Work Proposal, themed 'Inspired by China' I was interested in looking at mass production, and the use of inferior materials whilst challenging an ever-growing problem that furniture designer-makers are facing in Australia and abroad; the scarcity and excessive price of traditional wood working timber

The goal for second semester was to make a low slung, comfortable chair, I sourced some inspiration from a chair a friend had; A 70's retro low slung chair. Although it was cool and retro, it was uncomfortable as all of the proportions seemed to be out. The goal now, was to make a low slung chair that resolved what problems this chair had, whilst playing with cheap construction materials.

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THE PINE CHAIR - 2010

THE PINE CHAIR, 2010, Radiata pine, Oregon, hessian, 100.00cm x 60.00cm x 100.00cm. NFS

The pine chair is a contemporary take on a traditional chair by Hans J. Wegner; CH27. It challenges an ever-growing problem that furniture designer-makers are facing in Australia and abroad; the scarcity and excessive price of traditional wood working timber. The Chair has been made from construction grade Radiata Pine sourced from the local hardware store. Pine is uncommon in fine furniture making and is known for being cheap, young timber that is hard to work and lacks the strength of traditional wood working timbers. The chairs fabrication maximises what strength the material does have through multiple curved laminations and joinery that is inspired by traditional Scandinavian wedge joints.

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