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I have been working on a semester long project for my furniture class. We all came up with our own projects and came up with our own schedules. I have been thinking about how with most of my projects I leave myself enough time to make something once but I don’t usually get a chance to practice making things. For example after I finish making a chair I learn a lot from just making mistakes in the process.
For this project I decided to make the project revolve around the process of making mistakes and learning from the mistakes. I am planning to make a set or a family of “seating devices” (as Tom, our furniture professor calls them). I am starting with a stool and after I am done with the stool, I am planning to move on to a more complex seating device. Each piece will be slightly different but the idea is that they will be similar in process so that I will be able to apply what I have learned from the previous one to the next one.
The set will be made out of bent plywood. I have spent most of my time coming up with a curve to make a mold out of. The trick is to make a mold that I can use for different seat pans and back rests. I refined the curve to a point that I am comfortable with and started making bent ply parts.

Here are some pictures from the vacuum bagging process: