This video is part 5b of a 6 part course:
Gearing Up For Chair Making: Pt 5b
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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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Tool making is tricky! I’ve made 3 intricate and precise pieces of firewood so far – chowdering my plane iron in the process. I’ll make another blank tomorrow and at some point will cut up a saw. Amiright in thinking an angle grinder will harden it and I’m introducing a whole world more pain to a process that already feels….a learning curve…