Re: Sylka Dining Chairs: "Low End" or "Production"?
I'm a bit confused, is this a kit chair? If so, then you're in for nothing but problems unless you extensively modify the kit. Chairs are a high stress item, unlike say a dresser or an end table. They have weight on them and are scooted across the floor when loaded and as such, they have to have strong joinery to survive that stress. That chair in the kit uses just a basic glue bond (I assume) to hold it all together and 9 out of 10 people who assemble that kit won't glue the joints correctly and the chair will fail.
A mortise and tenon chair has to be pinned to hold, and the glue joints clamped for 24 hours. Do that and the chairs will hold decently - but you have to drill holes for the cross pins and those tenons look barely long enough. If the joints are held by dowels you glue in, forget it.
Duane Collie
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