[PDF] Chairmaking And Design eBook

Author : Jeff Miller
Publisher : Stobart Davies
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,59 MB
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Chair design
ISBN : 9780854421558

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An award-winning designer and builder demonstrates the key design elements behind all chairs and provides jig designs for simple construction.

Author : John Brown
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780854420834

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This work provides an insight into the history of Welsh stick chairs and includes instructions on how to make a chair, covering methods of bending the wood for chair construction. Illustrations show each stage in the building process.

Author : Peter Galbert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2015-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780990623038

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A complete treatise on building Windsor chairs, hand-illustrated by the author.

Author : Christopher Schwarz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,93 MB
Release : 2023-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781954697157

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"..."The Stick Chair Book" is divided into three sections. The first section, "Thinking About Chairs," introduces you to the world of common stick chairs, plus the tools and wood to build them. The second section - "Chairmaking Techniques" - covers every process involved in making a chair, from cutting stout legs, to making curved arms with straight wood, to carving the seat. Plus, you'll get a taste for the wide variety of shapes you can use. The chapter on seats shows you how to lay out 14 different seat shapes. The chapter on legs has 16 common forms that can be made with only a couple handplanes. Add those to the 11 different arm shapes, six arm-joinery options, 14 shapes for hands, seven stretcher shapes and 11 combs, and you could make stick chairs your entire life without ever making the same one twice. The final section offers detailed plans for five stick chairs, from a basic Irish armchair to a dramatic Scottish comb-back. These five chair designs are a great jumping-off point for making stick chairs of your own design. Additional chapters in the book cover chair comfort, finishing and sharpening the tools. From the author: "When I first wrote 'The Stick Chair Book' in 2021, I was also fighting cancer. So I hammered out the text with urgency and the desire to record every fragment of information I knew about chairmaking. "To be fair, that's usually how I go about writing all my books. But then I typically take a couple months off, put the manuscript aside, then revisit it with fresh eyes and a sharpened pen. My final revisions remove about 10-20 percent of the original material. The stuff I cut is usually chapters that don't match the tone of the rest of the text. Or I snip sections that aren't as relevant as when I first wrote them. I also smooth out the writing and add bits of information I'd forgotten during the first brain-to-fingers dump. "And that's exactly what I've done for this revised edition. As a result, the text is 10.1 percent shorter than the first edition. It's more to the point. And it's where the manuscript would have ended up under normal conditions..."--Publisher's website.

Author : James Mursell
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Furniture making
ISBN : 9781847971548

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Windsor chairs are a beautiful and traditional feature in any home. Celebrate their history, and learn their heritage. Both novice and experienced woodworkers can learn how to make a Windsor chair that is both functional and beautifully shaped.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Chairs
ISBN : 9780809495252

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This book, is a guide on how to build chairs out of wood, and also a step-by-step instruction manual.

Author : Kerry Pierce
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2008-06-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1558709592

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The fear of chairmaking is gone! Worried that you don't have what it takes to create stunning and comfortable chairs? From getting the perfect angle to making sure the size is just right and that each chair is comfortable - chairmaking can be a daunting task for any woodworker. But, never fear! Author Kerry Pierce draws upon decades of professional chairmaking experience to provide a handful of simple jigs that take the fear out of chairmaking. This book shows you how to make a variety of styles and types of chairs, from a ladder-back Shaker chair to a continuous-arm Windsor chair. You'll learn how to weave tape and rush seats, carve and shape wooden seats and much more.

Author : Christopher Williams
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2020-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781733391627

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John Brown (1932-2008) was a Welsh chairmaker, boatbuilder, author, jet pilot, smallholder and so much more.His book "Welsh Stick Chairs" and his columns in Good Woodworking magazine inspired a generation of hand-tool woodworkers and chairmakers all over the world to build things that lived up to label of "Good Work."This book recounts the chairmaking career of John Brown by the people who were there - family, friends, editors and (most of all) Chris Williams, who worked in conjunction with John Brown for a decade to refine the Welsh stick chair to its purest form. In addition to recalling his time working with John Brown, Chris shows how to make one of these simple but beguiling chairs using a small kit of hand tools.

Author : Ray Hemachandra
Publisher : Lark Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1579908721

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Rustic or refined, traditional or whimsical, functional or just plain fun, these imaginative thrones, rockers and chaises have one thing in common; more than merely places to sit, they are sculptural works of art. The work of today's top furniture artists, will charm, provoke and inspire you and make you rethink the very meaning of 'chair'.