This video is part 4 of a 6 part course:
Gearing Up For Chair Making: Pt 4
My goal for this course is to equip you with the knowledge and tools to design & build your own chairs from scratch.
Once this is complete, I’ll come up with some projects so we can put it all into use.
These six videos will get you well prepared.
The full (free) 6 part course at a glance:
‘Gearing Up For Chair Making’
- Pt 1) Understanding Chair Joinery: Tapered Round Joints
- Pt 2) Reamers & Tenon Cutters: Use & Applications [Shop bought vs Homemade]
- Pt 3) The ‘V-Block’: A Simple Workholding Gizmo for Chair Making
- Pt 4) Perfect Spindles Without A Lathe: Making the ‘Chair Maker’s Shooting Board’
- Pt 5) [in two videos] Making Your Own Reamers: Two Variations
- Pt 6) Making Your Own Tenon Cutters
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Thank you for making this series and I hope there will be a chair series that I can pay for to compensate you for the amount of time you have invested in this project. I have made a few chairs and have been looking for a good way to create tapered tenon joinery. I think you have hit the nail on the head. I have made the other chairs with a straight tenon and I think the locking effect of the taper would be a more lasting joint. I hope that because there is no other comments, that I am not the only one following this series, it is a very good lesson ingenuity.