Windsor Chair Build

Just how do I design a chair? It’s not really that hard, but it takes a little practice. I am running my Ugly Chair Challenge next week. I do this twice a year, and it is so much fun to participate in. Here’s what I’ll teach… How to find the best antique chairs How to find great fabrics How to pick out the right paint How to mix and match fabrics And what old chairs can become with a little creativity! It runs for five days and I teach a live lesson every single day. These lessons are also recor

Day Two of the Pagoda Windsor Chair class is complete. Today was a fun day. We started it off by drilling all of the holes for the legs into the seat. We then reamed them with a six degree tapered reamer so that they would accept the tapered tenon on the legs. The drilling and reaming were kept at the correct angles with the use of lasers. Two lasers work in tandem to make sure each leg is at the angle it needs to be. This method is darn near foolproof. After that we shifted our focus to carving

Reviving an Old Chair: Chair Restoration Tutorial