This is a rather incomplete set of photos showing my recent chairmaking adventure using using some logs acquired many years ago. Most of them had degraded and some rotted due to poor storage, but I managed to work around the weaknesses and pull together a completely improvised, no power tool Read more…
Making and turning. The process of making a Windsor chair in the course I was in was literally from greenwood: we split or reeved timber lengths from Tasmanian Blackwood logs. These were the first and primary pieces that we worked, and they would form the legs and stretchers of the Read more…
Craft, Making, and Depression. (Some rather disconnected initial thoughts.)
I have wanted to make a chair for some time. And, when I say sometime, I suspect it’s been lurking as a potential project since I was very young. The reason I say this is that when I was young, I used to go to exhibitions and a few other things with my father…