In their efforts to make chairmaking more accessible, Alexander Brothers in Virginia now offers steambent arms and armbows that will work with all the armchairs in “The Stick Chair Book” (a free download) and the Hobbit chair in The Stick Chair Journal No. 2. You can get the bent components in red oak or cherry….
Read moreTo mark the release of the revised edition of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” we asked the artists at SKT Ceramics in Cincinnati to design a large porcelain coffee mug in the company’s signature green-blue celadon glaze. We are offering 100 of these handmade 12-ounce mugs. Each is stamped on the underside by SKT and signed…
Read more“The Stick Chair Book” is on sale now for just $27 – that’s 50 percent off. To make room for a revised edition, we’re selling the last 500 copies of this book at a significant discount. If you’ve ever wanted to make your own chairs, “The Stick Chair Book” shows you how to do it…
Read moreI built this lowback for the third edition of “The Stick Chair Book” (coming out this year). This chair reflects all the design changes I’ve made to the form during the last five years. But the one thing I didn’t change is its seating geometry. The lowback chair (and my two Irish chairs) are the…
Read moreMegan and I are teaching two scholarship classes for The Chairmaker’s Toolbox this fall. I’m teaching a chair class (surprise) Sept. 15-19. Megan is teaching a Dutch toolchest class (double surprise) on Oct. 17-19. For these classes, we supply all the materials, plus lunches, morning pastries and a yay-you-did-it dinner for the students. If you…
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