{"id":399,"date":"2007-08-03T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2018-11-16T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T20:18:21","slug":"tracy-sigler-chair-of-log-and-plywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/tracy-sigler-chair-of-log-and-plywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracy Sigler &#8212; Chair of Log and Plywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first piece of furniture I ever made. I think I was about 20 years old, and it was a Christmas gift to my parents. I had found a large, rather straight log on their property and I knew I had to make something from it. At first I wanted to use it to make some sort modern totem pole, but that would require a lot of time and skill. I didn&#8217;t have much of either. I was determined to use that log though, and I was also looking forward to using a chainsaw for something other than yard work. So, I came up with this idea for a chair. I can&#8217;t remember why, but I wanted to design it to use knock down construction. (Probably due to years of Lego building.) I&#8217;m not sure if that made it easier or more difficult to build. There are some tricky miters for the various slots because the back and seat are not at a right angle, but for the most this is pretty primitive woodworking.<\/p>\n<p>All the parts including: three log legs; plywood back, seat and arms; 2&#215;4 cross braces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tracybluechairpartsbig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" title=\"Tracy Sigler -- Chair of Log and Plywood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tracybluechairparts.jpg\" alt=\"Tracy Sigler -- Chair of Log and Plywood\" width=\"500\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assembly is quick and easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tracybluechairassemblybig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-585\" title=\"Tracy Sigler -- Chair of Log and Plywood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tracybluechairassembly.jpg\" alt=\"Tracy Sigler -- Chair of Log and Plywood\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One strange handmade chair ready for lounging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tracybluechairbig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-586\" title=\"Tracy Sigler -- Chair of Log and Plywood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/tracybluechair.jpg\" alt=\"Tracy Sigler -- Chair of Log and Plywood\" width=\"500\" height=\"591\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first piece of furniture I ever made. I think I was about 20 years old, and it was a Christmas gift to my parents. I had found a large, rather straight log on their property and I knew I had to make something from it. At first I wanted to use it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[348,353],"tags":[367,189,446,434],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handmade","category-tracy","tag-chair","tag-furniture","tag-handmade","tag-woodwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}