To mark the launch of The Stick Chair Journal (coming in August 2022), we are giving away 400 Stick Chair Merit Badges to readers who have built a stick chair and can follow instructions. This promotion ends when we run out of the merit badges or on Dec. 31, 2022, whichever comes first. (When the…
Read moreReally, this video could have been done in four words…three words, one repeated: Wax on, wax off. But that’s already been said. So instead, I’ve blathered on for a few minutes about soft wax and how easy it is to use. The jar I’m using is from Katherine Schwarz (aka The Anarchist’s Daughter), who will…
Read moreWe now have a good supply of laser-cut chair templates in our warehouse that are ready to ship. The set of templates makes it easier to build the Staked Armchair from “The Anarchist’s Design Book,” but they are also a good starting point for many of the chairs in “The Stick Chair Book.” The seat…
Read moreThis six-stick comb-back chair with a narrow comb is the chair I built for the first issue of The Stick Chair Journal. I spent about a year gradually changing details on my chairs to arrive at this design, which features a four-piece arm with mitered arms. This chair, which is built using Pennsylvania black cherry,…
Read moreThis is an experiment. A fair number of readers have asked us to restock the full-size chair wooden templates for the Staked Armchair from “The Anarchist’s Design Book.” We carried these templates for a couple years and discontinued them after sales cratered. So we have done a short run of the templates to see if…
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