5 Day course
Monday, August 25, 2008 to Friday, August 29, 2008
Greg displayed several of his Windsor style chairs at our Grand Opening in March. Their elegance and simplicity were stunning. Not only that they were remarkably comfortable! (We kept forgetting to remind him to take them home.)
In this course Greg will take you through the the whole sequence of making a Windsor style chair. We've had to make some compromises to keep the course to a week so some of the turned parts will be made by a local turning operation.
You will make the chair primarily using hand tools. The seat is shaped out of a single piece of wood using a hollowing plane, scorp, and travisher. The spindles and bows will be shaped out of white oak rivings using a draw knife, spoke shave and scraper. You'll steam bend the back of the chair.
Hand making a Windsor chair requires many of the usual hand tools and a number of specialized hand tools. If you're serious about making chairs we encourage to make that investment and buy or borrow the specialized tools on Greg's list.
Greg is an accomplished finish carpenter who has a passion for chairmaking. He has studied with masters of chair making on the East Coast and has been making chairs in his spare time since 1998. Greg worked up a special design for this course.
Cost: $575
Material charge: $150
Starts at: 9:00 AM
What to bring:
You should bring a notebook and a pen or pencil.
Greg's Tool List
If you are considering making Windsor chairs after the course we'd recommend that you consider buying the following specialized chairmaking tools:
Our benches are equipped with a full range of hand tools but you may want to bring the following along:
- Curved card scraper
- Straight drawknife
- Straight spokeshave
- 1" bench chisel
- Brace drill
- Dividers
- Bevel square
- Coping saw
