I could not resist making these..
The arrow heads are carved from hardwood and burnished with a used-up (smooth) sanding disk and touched up with paint to make them look like chipped flint-stone and roughly wrought metal–the feathers are from magpie, turkey, and fowl
I cant seem to stop making chairs. I must have been chairless in a previous life!
This is the Easy Rider of chairs (big handle bars, low reclined seat, and really heavy)–it is cantilevered to give it that floating feeling. And the dovetail joints have evolved into the wood inlay decoration on the backrest. The centre piece is cypress pine surround by mahogany and then the yellow box local hardwood half-round slab which forms the backbone of the chair.
The angle of the backrest makes it quite comfortable–it is such that it bears about half of the body-weight–not all of your weight is on your bottom.
This one-person bench seat weighs a ton–all antique hardwood. It goes out on the veranda and, in lieu of cushions, the seat and back-rest are hollowed out to make it as comfortable as a moulded plastic chair. The arm rests and the crown piece are from the same wisteria–the twisted trunk was sliced down the middle on the band saw revealing a nice pattern and good colour.
Aged local hardwood recycled from slab fencing–the drawers have store-bought runners so they draw open and closed very smoothly without friction–on an earlier cupboard drawer I used a couple of marbles in a grooved track under the drawer and that worked well but these had to be good enough to use several times a day..
The first photo was taken at sunrise.
The Artwork of Richard Barnes, Australia 