I tried to see if I could add this to the recent Wiki entry but didn't see a way.   Interesting article https://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/the-lasting-influence-of-tage-frid/

 

The first woodworking class I ever attended was a weekend class by Tage.  I remember him talking about chair design.  At a break, I asked him how to allow for different physiques.  Mostly because I saw Tage as a shorter person and "high pockets", err, relatively short torso.   

 

Now as I have said, I' 6'5" and have a long torso.  My wife is the opposite, at 6' her legs are as long as mine.   Two of my kids are built like her and the third is built like me.  I remember in church, the one like me would stand up to sing and would be about 5" shorter than my wife.  When they sat down, they'd be the same height.   Another couple at current church is similar.   He's about my height and his wife's head tops out about his shoulders standing, but are the same height sitting.   Anyway, I digress.

 

Tage said he'd explain it after the break.    He called me up and had someone measure his height and my height.  I think we were about 9" difference.   Then he said that when we sat in a chair the difference would be divided up and negligible.  So he and I each sat in the same chair and someone measured from the floor to the top of our heads.   As I thought, the difference was amazingly still 9"    He mumbled something in Danish and walked off and started the next topic.

Edited February 15, 20197 yr by kmealy

I think he said- jeg hader dig

Sounded more like "lave lommer"

 

I loved this, mostly because this would be his comment to me.

 

“Nice dovetails. What’d you use, a chainsaw?”

I don't remember exactly what he was doing, but something about his "dovetail adjusting hammer" when he put a piece of wood on the top of the table saw and hammered away.   There was an audible series of gasps in the audience.