Category Archives: The Stick Chair Book

For Sale: Comb-back Stick Chair in Elm & Oak

Here we have one of my seven-stick comb-back chairs set up for lounging by the fire. It is finished with earth pigments, purified linseed oil and soft wax. This is the chair form shown on the cover of “The Stick Chair Book: 2nd Revised Edition.” I’m selling this chair for $1,900 via a random drawing;…

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No Steambox? No Problem

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….

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For Sale: Comb-back in Elm and Soft Wax

I 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…

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