This low-slung Irish armchair is the first chair I’ve finished in soot, dirt and oil – a finish that gives the chair a deep brown-black-red color that you find on old stick chairs. The chair is made entirely of elm (both red elm and American elm) and is one of the most comfortable chairs I make….
Read moreIn 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 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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