I had a feeling I was going to have difficulty blogging during class.
Here are a few of the high points from my Windsor Chair Class at Port Townsend School of Woodworking.
Splitting the white oak spindles.
Using the draw knife to shape.
More shaping of the spindles.
Starting to look like a spindle.
Steam bending the back bow.
Rough seat drilled and reamed.
Going cave man on the seat.
More seat carving.
Using the travisher to get close to the final shape.
Carving the under side of the seat with a draw knife.
More shaping.
Making the tenons on the bow
Holes drilled for the bow and inserted.
Trimming the feet.
Drilling for the spindles.
More work on those damn spindles.
Scraping to final surface.
Leveling the feet.
Seat Underside.
White oak bow.
Wedged spindles.
Finished seat.
Wedged legs.
Back bow sitting on the spindle deck.
My not so great gutter and I see a spot I missed.
What my gutter should look like (Peter’s).
And final shot.
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Looks like a good time. What was the most valuable tip you learned, while there?
Making a Windsor Chair in 60 hours (it was a six day class) .. for me is nuts!
Most every thing was new for me .. draw knife, how we used our spoke shaves, inshaves, travishers .. they’re all valuable tools for chair making.
The smartest thing I did was print out Peter’s book in pdf, bound it and brought it with me to help me remember what I was doing. That helped immensely since soooo much new stuff was coming at me.
The seat looks amazing. Glad you had a good time.
Was it locally-sourced wood?
Locally-sourced wood? Most of the books refer to primarily Eastern sourced logs. I know Peter’s book pays reference to other options.
No, we used white oak and pine (seat) which was sourced by Peter .. probably from the options he names.
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Great looking class and a very fine shave horse in action.
Feeling the urge to make more of those Damned spindles yet? 🙂
Ha!! Well at least I can make them w/o a deadline. 😀