Mike, great job again with this tutorial. These tutorials very accurately reflect what was taught at the Institute. It's amazing how much we learned in those five days. Looking forward to next week!
Great video - my class notes were complete. Only difference between 2000 and now was the use of the firmer gouge and hammer vs. the #3 35mm sweep carving gouge. Look forward to the next session.
A newby could make a chair with this video. Some of have made a few hairs and this is a good refresher AND a few new hints and twists that help. Thanks Mike!
Hi Mike I attended one of your windsor chair classes at the Wiindsor Chair Institute in New Hampshire. After I completed the class I had dreams of becoming a chair maker like you. So I brought the chair kit you were selling at the time and tried making a chair. I did pretty well in making the spindles, and steam bending the bow and and arm. However when I got to this step I failed miserably. I forgot to start making the H and when I applied one the stretchers to a chair leg the joint seized because I used yellow glue. After that failure I gave up. After watching this series of videos of making a sack back windsor chair you lifted my confidence so I feel I can build windsor chair. In fact I went to Viking Lumber and brought 10 feet of eastern white pine for making a couple of seats Thank you for an excellent job in presenting your methods.. Keep it up. Can you present another video for showing how to sharpen a travisher. thank you
Great instruction Mike! I’ve never built a chair before and I was able to build the “H” and then complete legging up in 2 hours. Mistake free, hassle free!
I'm definitely going to try wedging in the way you show it here. Normally I use a saw kerf and shaped wedges but that's always felt kind of fiddly and lining up the saw kerf has been a pain. Using the Chisel and a stick for the wedges seems like the way to go.
Thanks, Ben. I'm not sure where the saw kerf method got started, but once something (no matter how inefficient) gets put into a magazine it gains traction. Ever met someone that uses a mirror to check angles? I know a lot of tricks because the old guys taught me. Not personally, but through their work. I have studied hundreds of Windsors, but especially broken chairs and copied what I found. In the 18th century the business of Windsor chairmaking was competitive and the old guys worked in the fastest and most efficient ways. That's why they did not use shave horses. The guy that worked on one of those would have been out competed by the guys that used vises and would have been out of work.
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I am amazed at how few of my joinery tools will work for chair building. Outstanding video.
Once again Mike, an outstanding instruction and demonstration of the proper and correct ways to things.
Mike, great job again with this tutorial. These tutorials very accurately reflect what was taught at the Institute. It's amazing how much we learned in those five days. Looking forward to next week!
Great video - my class notes were complete. Only difference between 2000 and now was the use of the firmer gouge and hammer vs. the #3 35mm sweep carving gouge. Look forward to the next session.
Very nice series Mike. Logical, clear. It evokes memories of the class I took with you in 1998. Keep it up!
A newby could make a chair with this video. Some of have made a few hairs and this is a good refresher AND a few new hints and twists that help. Thanks Mike!
Thanks Holly. Yes, a beginner can make a chair following the instruction in this series.
Top of leg top of leg, how simple it works, thanks Mike! Want to make more chairs now!
This is a really nice tutorial. I really appreciate the pedagogy here.
Thank you for the kind words.
Nice job on the legging up !
Just tried your wet-fit method for the first time. It went really well and reduced the stress level of legging up. Thanks
Good to hear.
Hi Mike
I attended one of your windsor chair classes at the Wiindsor Chair Institute in New Hampshire. After I completed the class I had dreams of becoming a chair maker like you. So I brought the chair kit you were selling at the time and tried making a chair. I did pretty well in making the spindles, and steam bending the bow and and arm. However when I got to this step I failed miserably. I forgot to start making the H and when I applied one the stretchers to a chair leg the joint seized because I used yellow glue. After that failure I gave up.
After watching this series of videos of making a sack back windsor chair you lifted my confidence so I feel I can build windsor chair. In fact I went to Viking Lumber and brought 10 feet of eastern white pine for making a couple of seats Thank you for an excellent job in presenting your methods.. Keep it up. Can you present another video for showing how to sharpen a travisher.
thank you
Great instruction Mike! I’ve never built a chair before and I was able to build the “H” and then complete legging up in 2 hours. Mistake free, hassle free!
I'm definitely going to try wedging in the way you show it here. Normally I use a saw kerf and shaped wedges but that's always felt kind of fiddly and lining up the saw kerf has been a pain. Using the Chisel and a stick for the wedges seems like the way to go.
Thanks, Ben. I'm not sure where the saw kerf method got started, but once something (no matter how inefficient) gets put into a magazine it gains traction. Ever met someone that uses a mirror to check angles?
I know a lot of tricks because the old guys taught me. Not personally, but through their work. I have studied hundreds of Windsors, but especially broken chairs and copied what I found.
In the 18th century the business of Windsor chairmaking was competitive and the old guys worked in the fastest and most efficient ways. That's why they did not use shave horses. The guy that worked on one of those would have been out competed by the guys that used vises and would have been out of work.