The headrest is made up of 6 billets, 4.75 wide by 8 tall. They are glued together to form a curve. This means they need an angled edge to create this curve. I used a Wixey angle guage to make a pair of coopering jigs for the jointer. They are 4 and 5 degrees.
Using the cut offs from the jig I glued up pairs of billets:
With three pairs of billets glued up, they were too curved to clamp together so I used pinch dogs top and bottom. These worked great.
Finished, they matched the template very closely:
Next up: Seat shaping.