This six-stick comb-back chair is a close cousin to the chair shown on the cover of “The Stick Chair Journal No. 1.” The only significant differences are that the arm parts on this new chair aren’t mitered. And its comb is taller. I am selling this chair for $1,500 via a random drawing. Instructions on…
Read moreThis post originally appeared on Peter Follansbee’s blog, Joiner’s Notes. Reprinted here with permission. I read last week that chairmaker Dave Sawyer passed away. I never knew him, but I felt very connected to his work through our many mutual friends. Over the past ten years or so I’ve been working on this idea in…
Read moreBy request from readers, we are going to try to bring back some stickers. The original Sticker Queen, my daughter Maddy, is too swamped with getting her doctorate to take on the sticker business. But my youngest, Katy, has agreed to give it a try. There will be three stickers in this set, and they…
Read moreWhen people watch me work, I mess up more. I work too fast. I skip important operations. I can’t concentrate. All of which should make you wonder why I ever aspired to be a C-list woodworking celebrity. When we bought our shop on Willard Street in 2015, I fell in love with the building’s enormous…
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