wood shavings eh?
Sounds scratchy.
A clue against SDR's theory is I've always found the veneer placement to be be rather deliberate - i.e. the pointed parts of the cathedral grain flow from the front of the seat to the spine, up the spine, and merge on the backrest. In this case that holds true...kind of. The backrest grain does form a point, but goes in the reverse direction as the seat & spine.
And a clue in favore of SDR's theory is that I just glanced around at my 4 plywood chairs, and 3 of them feature an off centered join...on the backside of the backrest.
As to whether it's teak or walnut... I'm going to go completely against the grain and say Balsa wood.
according to my...
...dear mother it was scratchy...
I do not know it there is a name for it in the furniture industry but in the car industry you call it monday morning cars. It has all the right ingrediences but not always in the right order....Of course I am talking about the Eames chair, not about myself!
Heh-heh.
Koen and I are in a race, "tied" (at birth), to 100 (years) -- or any other goal of your choice ! But I can't claim to have been born in a manger. . .or a wood shop. My dad had some tools, and seemed to know what to do with them. . .
I remember the strong feeling I got from something he made for me that was painted with red enamel. The color and the paint smell and the wood all blend in my mind, still.
All other things being equal, I think most designers and makers in wood would prefer symmetry about a vertical axis to take precedence over that about a horizontal axis, OR to the niceties of "cathedrals up" (as it was explained to me in my first job). Yet I know people who prefer all sorts of irregularity in their woodwork -- the scarier the better: knots, wild grain, no two pieces alike ("you can tell it's real wood that way !"). Rustic, I call them. . .
Just a quick though on SDRs'...
Just a quick though on SDRs' idea that it was an error in production.
I've seen stuff like this happen again and agian too and its one of the dangers of batch production, a mistake like that can happen so easily when the person stacking the veneers gets them reversed for some reason, probably out of boredom, a whole run of pieces (50-100 whatever) can be wrecked. I once sprayed contact adhesive over about 30 metres of expensive fabric...on the wrong side.
Glad to see the teak diagnosis confirmed.
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