Refinishing a Wegner J16 rocking chair  

I have just sent you an email but as it could be indeed a good base for discussion / comparison.

1. The armrests on my chair are 20 mm thick all the way, from front to back.

2. 53 cm

5. The paper cord makes measurements a little complicated but it seems that the stretcher and the seat rail are perfectly parallel. The armrest seems ca. 1 cm higher in the front that in the back (vs. seat rail). Again this is really approximative but the armrest and the seat rail are definitely not parallel.

Let me know if you need anything else!

Hi minimoma,

You'll have to believe me that I've searched the web up and down looking for drawings.

The most advanced image I came across was the one you placed up here from the Wegner museum, but its size won't let me draw dimensions from it.

This i the reason I tried to take notes out of a real world chair. I'm almost have it all now, missing only small number of figures.

Minimoma - here's another strange thing.

While looking at the drawing you placed here i noticed that all 3 horizontal lines (stretcher, seat rail, armrest) are positioned differently than the distances I took out of a real world chair.

In the diagram hereunder -

at the left hand side: your drawing and highlighted lines on top

At the right hand side - same lines taken from a the photo at the center.

please advice..

Forgot to include the link for Fredericia. All their products have 2D/3D CAD files that can be downloaded and enlarged to full scale and turned into a shop drawing. You need AutoCAD (or similar dwg programs?) to view these files that can also be saved as a PDF, JPEG or PNG formats and printed full scale. Old school shop drawings were drawn along side the physical object/model to compare measurements. At least you have a base drawing that you can tweak until you get all the details correct instead of starting from scratch. The arm and the rocker parts are the parts that you can make a template of from an actual chair which could be of paper or cardboard.

https://www.fredericia.com/Products/By-Designer-Hans-J--Wegner/Wegner-J1...

thanks, i'll explore this source