“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…
Read moreAlmost every week – especially during the summer – we get messages from readers who want help with an upcoming trip. They are headed to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and would like a list of woodworking stuff in the area that they can visit. For me, answering these questions is time-consuming. I have to go back and…
Read moreThis comb-back chair is based on the chair on the cover of “The Stick Chair Book,” with some modifications detailed below. The finish is fresh milk paint (a recipe from a forthcoming book) tinted with a French mineral pigment called “saffron.” This particular chair is set up for lounging. This summer, I have been tweaking…
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