Clamp, Furniture
Jig for #1 chair arms, South Family, Mount Lebanon, NY
Description
(.1) Cherry jig with edges corresponding to shapes of insides and outsides of #1 chair arms and clamp blocks which are tightened down on arm blanks by means of two-carriage bolts which pass through blocks and tighten into captured nuts in jig base. The carriage bolts are tightened by turned cherry handles into which the bolts are inserted. (.2-.3) are arm blanks of beech which are secured in jig.
Notes
Miller, M. Stephen. Inspired Innovations: A Celebration of Shaker Ingenuity. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2010.