How Are Wooden Chairs Manufactured?
Unless a chair is carved from a single piece of wood, any chair is manufactured in much the same way. Although the sizes of the components may change, the basics remain the same. This holds true whether a woodworker is making a single chair or if a shop is manufacturing thousands of matching wooden chairs. Designing a Chair Before a chair can be made, the woodworker has to design it in such a way that it will be safe to sit in. The home woodworker will typically hand draw a design and then create a prototype from scrap lumber to make sure the chair is safe and stable. Large furniture makers hire engineers to design and draw the chair in a computer assisted drawing program and then manufacture and test the finished chair. Each flaw is tweaked in the CAD program until the chair is considered safe. The Components All chairs have three things in common: a seat, a chair back and a way to raise these off the floor. While chair styles may look different, they each include these three parts. C
