Chairs

STL318: Back to School
June 14, 2024

Amanda is joined by Ashley Pieper and Bonnie Elisabeth Hawk to discuss woodworking education and how it has carved a path for them in their furniture making careers.
Made You Look: Irish Chair Maker John Surlis
June 13, 2024

An episode from a Irish docuseries called "Hands" shows Surlis make a stick chair from an ash log.
Chris Schwarz’s Irish stick chair
June 12, 2024

Chris makes chairmaking approachable with a set of basic tools.
Ep 28: Completing the Queen Anne sidechair
February 28, 2024

In the final episode of this series, Dan Faia demonstrates how to fit a seat frame for the chair and how to properly prepare for upholstery.
Understanding wood grain
February 16, 2024

Peter Galbert learned a method for riving parts from sawn and dried planks. It has changed his perspective, and it might change yours, too.
Ep 27: Final glue-up of the chair
February 14, 2024

In the penultimate episode, it all comes together in the final glue-up of Dan Faia's Queen Anne chair.
Ep 17: Angled tenons for the side rails
November 22, 2023

Using hand tools, Dan creates the angled joinery that make up the trapezoidal rails for the Queen Anne chair seat.
Ep 14: Finishing the chair back
November 1, 2023

The chair back gets the last of the chamfers and Dan perfectly carves a return on a round over with his trusty chisel.
Ep 13: Blending the outside of the crest rail
October 25, 2023

Dan continues with the task of shaping every surface of the chair back.
Ep 11: Blending the crest rail with the back splat
October 12, 2023

Dan shapes the crest rail until it looks like one unified piece with the back splat and then glues up the final back assembly of the chair.

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