Recently we started making our own animal-based glue called “Piggly No Wiggly.” It’s made from three ingredients: food-grade gelatin, uniodized table salt and tap water. The glue is great for furniture. It has an open time of about 18-20 minutes (depending on the temperature and humidity in your shop). That extra time is nice for…
Read moreThis stick chair features some of my favorite details on older chairs: low side stretchers (with no medial stretcher), plus faceted short sticks and a newly designed skinny armbow. I’m selling it via a random drawing. Details on the drawing are below. Here are some notes on the chair. This comb-back chair is set up…
Read moreI don’t like making up names for furniture components. Not because I want to be pedantic. But because I want to avoid confusion. If something has a name (fiddleback maple) I would rather use that name than make one up (maple on a lot of acid). One name that has escaped me for years is…
Read moreAs Nancy Hiller famously said, “It’s all problems.” We will move the remainder of our inventory into the Anthe building during the first week in October. The three semis have been scheduled. We have a plan. But until that moment the first truck arrives on Oct. 2, we have to move a few mountains. It…
Read moreWe just finished up the chair class with students selected by Chairmakers Toolbox, and we are both inspired and exhausted. Building eight stick chairs in five days with limited tools is no joke. But working with a group of chair-crazy enthusiastic young woodworkers gives me hope for the future of our craft. So today I…
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