Building a lowback stick chair part 1 - starting on the seat and legs

This is part 1 of building a lowback stick chair where I start with the initial stock prep of the seat and leg components and get the seat to a point where it is ready for joinery. In part 2 I'll pick back up with shaping the legs.

I've been wanting to start building chairs for some time, but was a little intimidated by it. I probably don't have quite all of the right tools or maybe skills for the job, but figured it was time to give it a go and figure it all out by doing! Hope you enjoy following along with the process, I'm tremendously enjoying the build and trying to document it.

I'm following along with the techniques and methods laid out in The Stick Chair Book by Christopher Schwartz and published by ‪@lostartpress‬ (https://lostartpress.com/products/the.... My chair will be based (loosely if my history of being incapable of following any sort of plans is anything to go by) on the low back stick chair described on page 465.

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Timecodes
0:00 - opening
0:13 - marking and sawing out boards for the seat
1:34 - edge jointing the seat blank
2:49 - gluing up the seat blank
3:28 - sawing out the legs blanks
5:23 - milling the seat blank
7:40 - laying out the seat shape and joinery
8:40 - making the curve on the seat blank
9:50 - clean up