We’re selling this cherry comb-back stick chair with a chunk of the proceeds going directly to The Chairmaker’s Toolbox to help the next generation of chairmakers and toolmakers. I built this chair during the scholarship class last week in our workshop. It’s made from black cherry and is set up for general use – dining…
Read moreIf you know anything about woodworking, I think you are qualified to teach it to others. In my earliest days of woodworking as an adult, my friend Chris and I taught each other what we knew about woodworking, even though we each knew enough to fill up a thimble. In the early 1990s, I taught…
Read moreOn Friday we wrapped up the class and assembled six new stick chairs. Also, thanks to the generosity of Lost Art Press readers, all the students took a complete kit of cherry parts home for their next stick chair – plus the jigs and patterns necessary to make that great leap at home. Making stick…
Read moreThe movie selection today does not adequately cover everything we did. It does not cover the empanadas. Or the pastries. Or the bourbon slushes. It also doesn’t cover the fact that we made most of the sticks and tenoned them. Tomorrow we will shave all the sticks to shape, clean up the arms and assemble…
Read moreNone of these chairs are the same. Not the rake and splay of the legs or undercarriage. Not the arms or hands. Not the position of the sticks. So yeah, stick chairs are on the menu.
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