Letters from the Chair

  Here's a video I made showing how I make a chair leg start to finish (not including the time in the kiln for drying the tenon). I ...

After some time away from chair building, I am finally getting my mojo back. To me there isn't much that is more rewarding than start...

After my better half got home and after a little debating, we decided the spilt rail fence just didn't look quite right around the garde...

Well it's been almost a month since my last post and that about sums up how furniture making has been going. Pretty dead right now, but ...

I've always loved the look of those old, square log cabins you see that were built in the pioneer days, and actually earlier than...

 After browsing over my past videos uploaded to YouTube, I watched the one on Spindle Making. While I'm never happy with the...

I'm working on another chair order and need to steam bend the bows for 4 sack backs. I thought it might be helpful to show how I go abou...

I was splitting out some spindles for some chairs today and after a few hard whacks my froe club broke in two. I made the broken one bac...

I had been sitting at the shaving horse all day when my 3 year old daughter Lily, came out to see me. I stood up and walked over to the benc...

When you look at a Windsor Chair in it's completed form, there are so many parts that come together to make the beauty you see. Part of ...

 There is truly something magical and mesmerizing about a Draw Knife. I split out in the neighborhood of 100 billets and roughed out 93 yest...

                                                As I began a new and rather large chair order this week, 10 to be exact. I went through the...