Jefferson swivel and Secretary
This is one of my favorite pictures. It's my Thos. Jefferson Swivel windsor and a Tiger Maple secretary I made. I think they look so good together.
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Comment by Vincent Lavarenne on January 2, 2011 at 11:58am -
Matt,
That's a beautifull form of Windsor Chair and I have long been willing to reproduce it after I saw it and read about in Charles Santore's book years ago. (The Windsor style in America, page 199-200)
Your version seems to be a close copy of the Jefferson's chair in its supposed original state as it was sketched by Charles Santore and reproduced by Robert Whitley. Am I right?
As for the swivelling mecanism, did you use the original swivelling device as described by Santore ( a central iron axis and a crown of sash-pulleys rolling in a groove between the two seat planks) or did you use a modern ball bearing Lazy Suzan ?
Congratulation for that beautiful and rare chair.
I wish you a happy and busy chair making new year .
Vincent
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Comment by Matt Rushing on January 2, 2011 at 1:57pm -
Vincent,
Yeah I actually got plans from Whitley that is a full scale set of drawings and is so acurate it's almost worth the price of $150, almost. I did use the center swivel mechanism on my first one but have since changed that to a new ball bearing 6" swivel because the original had a tendancy to rock and would bind up, with the ball bearing it works great and I have had no trouble with it. Thank you for the compliment I really greatly appriciate it.
Matt
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