My solution to not having the right size lumber was quite simple. Instead of going out and spending and absurd amount of money on 2 inch thick hardwood, I decided to scale down the chair, make a miniature version of the original.

My first step was to take the full size templates and copy them to a large piece of paper. From that I took a photo and uploaded it to my computer. I then used Illustrator to map each piece. This gave the CNC cutter that I have access to at work a file to cut from.

And that's pretty much where things got harder for me.

Some parts worked fine others were modified slightly and some were completely made by hand, whatever it took to make things look right with the size.