Category: Chairs
-
A Small Detour
When my daughter was born, I had the idea to build chairs for her as she grows. Someday, this may leave her with a burdensome amount of chairs but that is her problem, not mine. I finished the first one for her first birthday. She doesn’t know how to sit…
-
Moving Along
The Irish stick chair is moving along. Putting the details aside, the base is nothing more than some sticks mortised into a plank. Not overly complex stuff, although it took some creativity to deal with the stock at times. As you can see in the picture below, not all of…
-
Shaving Sticks
I haven’t had much time to post over the past couple of months but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. The flood gates will open once I find some time to document what I’ve been working on. After a mad dash to finish the first of four plant stands…
-
Finishing the Perch
It’s time to wrap up the perch. Once the glue had set, I finished shaping the seat using a travisher and spokeshave, then smoothed everything out with a card scraper. It’s been years since I’ve worked with a properly tuned card scraper, and I had forgotten just how enjoyable they…
-
Under Tension
The Perch build is officially going the distance. Assembling the undercarriage was more interesting than I anticipated, so I’ll dedicate this post to that process and show off the finished piece in my next post. Turning the legs was relatively uneventful. I still have a ways to go before reliably…
-
Starting with the Seat
The first step for my Irish Stick Chair build is carving the seat. I’ve been hesitant to start because I’ve never carved a chair seat before, and the oak that I’m using will not be particularly easy to carve. Fortunately, I found inspiration while reading through old Chair Notes posts…
-
A Little Creepie
A “creepie” is an Irish or Scottish term referring to a rustic three-legged stool that I first stumbled upon in Chris Schwartz’s Anarchist Design Book. I’m not well studied enough to say what, if anything, makes a creepie particularly unique but I find the term quite endearing. Most of the…
-
Foray into Green Woodworking
I haven’t quite caught the “chair bug” yet, but the more I venture into chairmaking—Windsor and stick chairs in particular—the more intrigued I become. For woodworkers, such as myself, with a background almost exclusively in casework type furniture, chairmaking can seem like an entirely different discipline. Proficiency using hand tools…
Welcome to the Workshop 