I spent a week learning to make chairs with a pole lathe this summer. Six lovely days in the woods of Westonbirt arboretum. What could be better?
When Harry, who came to fix our Velux windows, saw the result he commented, “One of them old-fashioned chairs with the arse cut out of ’em.
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seventeenth-century joined furniture; green wood, hand tools
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Wow I don’t have a lot of interest in chairs i go more for chests and table but end up making planes and workbenches and the stuff needed to get there. Anyway that chair is stunning
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Thanks Adam.
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