This video is part 5a of a 6 part course:
Gearing Up For Chair Making: Pt 5a
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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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Here in Yucatan, Irwin hacksaw blades are US$30, on Amazon, when they can be found at all. Nicholson, on the other hand, is $1 apiece locally.
As I watch this for the nth time, I realize what a gift it is. At my age details don’t stick like they used to.. Looking forward to it becoming second nature.. Or at least first nature.. I’ve been wanting to learn how to do this for some time now, but I don’t have the experience to have the creativity to figure it out.
Thanks loads Richard