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Now then. I don’t think we all learn the same way.
I need to know the why’s and the how’s. Just giving me the answer does nowt.
School was like that, and I did shite.
I’ve noticed with craft that a lot of it has been forgotten. And now, through passion and interest, old methods are being brought back. Often with modern learning techniques and plenty of scientific maths.
Considering your average craftsman back in the day could hardly string the letters together to spell his own name, you’ve got to wonder how they figured things out.
What to Expect from this Series:
This course isn’t just a plan and a how to.
It’s easy enough to build a half decent chair if you just follow a plan and do as you’re told.
But I want this to be more about how it’s figured, and getting into that mindset. From a scratty sketch to a full size plan, then how to turn that into a three dimensional chair. You can follow along and you’ll end up with a nice chair. But I feel after this you’ll be itching to design your own, with a much clearer understanding of how.
No Scientific Maths.
I was taught by old men, from chairs to timber frames built entirely of oak. Never did they rely on maths.
In this game it’ll always let you down… or so they said.
String is the answer.
We’ll go through figuring all the leg angles, finding the sight lines, and how to set up for small batch work. It’s easy to fall into batch work when you’re building chairs.
What You’ll Need
As usual the tool list is short.
Basic bench tools (more info on those very soon) and a reamer or two.
You’ll see as we design this chair how to work around different reamer angles, so you can make it with most of what’s out there.
The Design
The design is a bit of a concoction, brutalist mixed with Tage Frid’s well-known three legged stool, with the focus kept firmly on chair making technique. And it doesn’t need much wood.
(Plan and cutting list coming soon.)
If you follow along and build this stool, the design is yours to use freely. I’d guess they’d sell nicely, and make a good proficient build done in small batches.
Timings
The series is now running!
Each chapter will be shared with you as a video which you can watch online or download to watch any time.
Once you sign up you’ll have access to the members area to watch these, and a quick email notification will come through to let you know when each chapter goes live. It’s nice and simple!
The PDF drawings are all available to download. Providing a cutting list, measurements and joinery details.
It’s all available for a low one time payment of £26
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Once it’s all live the price will increase to £35.00
Brilliant! I can’t wait. Last week I rewatched and built the bench tray, and it was a lot of fun. Good to get new courses.
I can’t find a log in button on my phone. Does it not exist?
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Thank you Richard. I’ve signed up and paid the dosh and it’ll go on my list of things to do (which is no guarantee it’ll get done). But I don’t care, I’d have paid £26 to watch the 6 videos since June on making the reamers and tenon cutters which were quality and a sheer joy to watch.
I assume a small change in design has taken place after the collapse of the miniature mock-up in video 1. I admire your honesty in leaving that clip in.
Well done and thanks again.
Despite the chair’s ignominious introduction, I’ve been infatuated with it since you first showed it and I’m so glad you’ve made a project of it weeks cargo I decided it would be my next project and I’m sure you’ll simplify the process. Thanks for doing this.
Looks great but is it comfortable as well? I have been sitting on some Bauhaus chairs lately and although they looked really nice, sitting on them was not.
How to build comfort?
I was making an external wooden door hand cut mortise and tenons, I watched the video on how to true up a mortise so the rail was plumb to the style, it worked everytime and wasn’t difficult, certainly alot easier than I was going to attempt, thank you, Richard, Tom Lawton.
Signed up for this one. Intrigued by the minimalist design of the chair. Looking forward to getting started!
I really like the emphasis on understanding why the angles and proportions work rather than simply following a set of measurements. Learning how to go from a rough sketch to a full-size plan and then into a finished piece seems far more useful in the long run, especially for anyone who wants to design their own furniture. The backed stool also looks like a great project for learning chair-making fundamentals without needing a huge amount of timber or an overly complicated tool kit.
It’s ugly.
I like the emphasis on understanding why the geometry works rather than simply following a cutting list. Learning to work out leg angles and sight lines from a full-size plan should make it much easier to design your own chairs later on.