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We really are getting closer, you’ll see. I’d have to sift through the pile to see, but instead I moved on and successfully bored my mortises, made 2 news legs – yes, 2. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO EVALUATE THEIR STRENGTH. First step is to plane two faces, then bring the whole thing to about 1 3/8″ square. SOFTWOODS ARE ANOTHER WHOLE STORY. Then mark out the tapered foot, and plane down to that. So different, but quite similar. Pete’s a great teacher, so I’m planning on getting that video series as well – but right now I have to have breakfast, then go light the fire. Because I’ve been fumbling around at these chairs, I hadn’t made the stretchers yet. And re-reading Nancy Goyne Evans’ Windsor-Chairmaking in America: From Craft Shop to Consumer. The blog tells the whole story, just not in any logical order. Both of these are Curtis Buchanan’s design, with my change to the crest rail joint. As soon as I got this one done, I saw the flaw – I tapered the legs the wrong way! Amazing. One has about 13 or 14 rings, the other over 90. Once I got them where I liked them, I put them in the kiln to dry the tenons, and will go back to finishing the arm chair’s seat while those get to the right moisture content. https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/i-thought-you-were-supposed-to-be-good-at-this/, And here’s the crest rail joint, on a side chair I made earlier – down in the middle of this post – https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/some-shop-work-today/. Peter was born on August 3, 1933 in Mount Vernon, New York to Mary and Peter Hearne. I make stop cuts here & there, and apply beeswax to the tiny little teeth. No work, no photos, no writing. In chapter 1, Stools and Chairs, she writes about súgán chairs – what I know of as a ladderback chair, but with a straw (súgán) seat. During the 1950's Evans purchased a parsonage from Hiss United Methodist Church in Parkville, Maryland which soon thereafter became the first funeral home in Parkville. For my joinery work, like this chest, I prefer the slow-growing wood. One celebrated version features in Van Gogh’s painting “Bedroom in Arles (1888).” Below is a sketch of the bedroom at Arles. This piece, a stile for a joined stool, has about 25 or more growth rings in 2″. Parkville - Evans Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services offers a variety of funeral services, from traditional funerals to competitively priced cremations, serving Parkville, MD and the surrounding communities. The section in the photo above is about 9″ wide across that radial face. While I’ve been on this chairmaking kick lately (you’ll see more about it soon) – in addition to Elia & Curtis’ recent series, I watched the stuff Pete Galbert posted recently. Today it was my turn, the joke was on me. Well, I’ll end on a good note – today there was a flock of about 8 eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) here for 15 minutes. One reason to see these versus (or in addition to) the ones Curtis already had on youtube is because he has changed things over several versions of making this chair. Or you can’t do it easily. All material © Peter Follansbee, 2008-2020, Carving Drawings; 17th-century work from Devon, England and Ipswich, Massachusetts, set #1, John/Jennie Alexander & Peter Follansbee; joined stool demo 2007 – 6 videos, https://toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/GT-BOWS.XX?searchterm=bowsaw, a little snowfall, some chair & stool stuff, https://www.curtisbuchananchairmaker.com/store/p40/Full-Scale_Drawings%3A_How_to_Make_a_Democratic_Arm_Chair.html, https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/i-thought-you-were-supposed-to-be-good-at-this/, https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/some-shop-work-today/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedroom_in_Arles, “I thought you were supposed to be good at this…”, An on-line spoon carving class in January, http://handtoolwoodworking.com/online-classes/, http://handtoolwoodworking.com/democratic-chair-online-classes/, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/galbertfoundations. There – I’ve got that mistake from six years ago remedied. Below is a piece of white ash (Fraxinus americana) – each growth ring has two sections; the early wood/spring wood is the open porous bits. Below is a shot of those two rungs – the top one is the fast growing one that bent quite a ways before de-laminating – if I had shaved it more carefully, it might have bent without its fibers pulling up like that. All of my commute is in this photo, minus about three steps. One day a high school kid was watching one of the potters struggling with a new form. The nice thing about making Windsor-style chairs is you don’t have to wait to sit in them. The fresh green wood planes so easily. But if you want to make a light but strong ladderback chair, like those I learned from Jennie Alexander and Drew Langsner – that stuff won’t work. The crest rail joint is a 3/8″ wide tenon, made by just tapering the crest’s thickness. It turns out I’m a lousy student – I changed the crest rail tenon – and I did the arm-to-rear post joint differently from Curtis’ plan too. I’ve made lots of kinds of chairs over the years, but the chair I started today is only my third attempt at a “brettstuhl”. I make the octagonal cross-section after tapering. Flowers by Peter works hard to craft outstanding floral arrangements and provide exceptional customer satisfaction to Flushing, NY. They’ll be ready soon. Funerals we will be conducting in the coming weeks and further details including service times, locations and donation requests. New Bedford, MA 02746. Here’s my most recent modern attempt at Windsor chairmaking. Masashi also tells me that Amazon JP does international delivery. Once you have the undercarriage assembled, it really shouldn’t be able to then fit in the tapered mortises – but there is enough flex in the structure to pull the legs apart, so it can all go together. I saw some things that were either changed, or more detailed in this set of videos. Click on the graphic on the left to download the file. When I did the youtube series about joined stools last year, I got the idea when I was already underway. Friday I was over at Michael’s and we dug out some more of the butternut. If you’ve been watching Elia Bizzarri and Curtis Buchanan make this chair recently or have seen Curtis’ youtube videos about it, you’ll notice I changed the crest rail. You can unsubscribe at any time. Peter met his long-lost childhood friend, Eddie Brock Jr., after discovering boxes of old documents and video tapes in a hidden room in his basement, indicating both their fathers worked on the 'Venom Project'.Eddie was a student at ESU, and showed Peter 'their inheritance', a biological "suit" that could enhance and heal a sick person. I decided today to assemble the undercarriage of the next Windsor chair in my pile of projects. I split one section up into spindle blanks, 3/4″ square, tapering to the top. (I realized the young man on youtube was Manolo after my book was published! If you watch this, and pay attention, you’ll learn a great deal about wood, wood selection, chairs, seating and more. This is about 28″-30″ long. The Funeral Home is located on the left hand side approximately 16 km from the 401 directly across from Speedy Muffler and Hakim Optical at the intersection known as “Five Points”. Here’s a set of stiles, with a new year marked on them –. Finishing up work on Jennie Alexander’’s book with Megan Fitzpatrick on JA chairs. And WD40 – learned it from JA. Obituaries - Wolfe Memorial, LLC offers a variety of funeral services, including traditional funerals, cremation, and green burial, serving Forest Hills, PA and the surrounding communities. But I think this one’s not well-suited to this application. All Obituaries - Huehns Funeral Home, Inc. & Door County Crematory LLC are full-service funeral and cremation services, caring for Door County and northeastern Wisconsin families since the establishment of Hahn Funeral Home in 1884. So it’ll only be fit for joined stools, maybe some box parts from the wider bits. William Spangenburg. But today I decided I’m not that clumsy or “un-crafty”. Enter your email below to receive a grief support message from us each day for a year. I’m no master with a bowsaw/turning saw. He calls it a foundation course and that’s a good name for it. This was the 2nd mortise I bored: I’ve made lots and lots of chair joints; ladderbacks & Windsors. The súgán chairs also reminded me of a chair I photographed at my friends’ house a few years ago. I first began learning these techniques in 1978. I never used an auger bit for chair work before, and I was following Curtis’ recommendation. Tomorrow it could be you. Now it goes to the kitchen to replace the very first version of this chair that I did. It was getting pretty low light in the shop, so I decided that was a good time to quit. Here, I’m testing the depth – according to the plans Curtis drew up – that stretcher location should be something like 9 3/4″ above (below, really) the seat. Daniel is coming back as video-editor – he’s broke and wants some money. Then mine was shooting semi-proper shots of the recent spate of seating furniture. I start near the foot and take a few strokes, then begin backing up as I plane forward. I've been writing this blog since 2008. Then usually Elia makes the video of it available shortly thereafter. https://toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/GT-BOWS.XX?searchterm=bowsaw. So today I started in at the beginning, working some beautiful ash – and tapering those legs DOWN to the feet. Since 1865, Evans Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services has had a strong presence in Maryland through four generations as a family-owned business. I’ve used other ring porous woods like catalpa and sassafrass for various things, but I think of them as too soft for much furniture – certainly for chair work. Just a bit. It’s the auger bit – that’s what’s different. It is about a few things; my specialty in reproductions of 17th-century oak furniture, the use of hand woodworking tools, carving wooden spoons & bowls – and other pursuits involving hardwoods “riven” or split from a log. Bruce Hoadley’s book Understanding Wood: A Craftsman’s Guide to Wood Technology is where I go to read about what wood is doing & why. And on the arms, I made a through tenon into the rear post – which you can’t really assemble unless you put some intentional slop in that joint. January 22, 2021 February 4, 2021 pfollansbee Uncategorized chairmaking, green woodworking, Make a Chair From a Tree, mortise & tenon joinery, Peter Follansbee, windsor chair ladderback & Windsor I got two chairs assembled recently – a couple of days ago it was the ladderback on the left – for some photos we needed for JA’s book. Below you see one leg done, the other riven oversized. I’ve been putting it off due to the pandemic, figuring it’s not that important…but I’m sick of all these spots all over the photos. He & Curtis Buchanan struck a pretty casual pose in their chair class, which I learned a lot from. The posts are pith-centered (I could see that in Masashi’s book too) and when he split a section to make rungs – he used his knife to split it. The mortise I made by boring a couple of holes, and paring it with a chisel. This is the 3rd volume. Nancy read a staggering amount of period records in her research for her 3 volumes on American Windsor chairs. After a long quiet period, the kid looked at her & said “I thought you were supposed to be good at this…” – I just about fell over laughing. I’m going to try the online class routine in January. Arnett-Sanders, Edward Michael. I have a joined stool cut out, but waiting for the turned parts – some of the wood is still too green for crisp detail at the lathe. On the top is a fast-growing red oak; the bottom board is the slow-growing example. Hickory bark seat. Then it’s pinned through the post. What was once the showroom is now additional office space. And got the thing together. So you can watch it live, watch it later or both. Also, dead-straight. Then measured for the stretchers. I might make chair rungs from some of it for ladderbacks. But I like it, and think I’ll do it on the next one too. It involves Shoji Hamada, “one of the most famous Japanese potters”, Tatsuaki Kuroda, Japan’s first living national treasure woodworker, Soetsu Yanagi (author of The Unknown Craftsman) and a convoluted tale of chairs from Spain that look like a chair painted by a Dutchman in France 75 years earlier. Or vice-versa. Our arrangements are florist-designed, and hand-delivered with 100% satisfaction guarantee. Currently, Evans Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services is owned and operated by Charlie Evans. Masashi’s book also includes a photo series of making copies of this chair form. I’ll go light the fire, and pretend to work – while really I’ll be watching the bird feeders. So I’ve been rusty at it. Red oak with hickory rungs. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Both came from southeastern Massachusetts, both are 6″ wide. A couple of things come to me as I sorted these photos. Then I went over some of the detailed edges with a couple of carving gouges. I’m mostly happy with it, but I look forward to the next one. Planing that fresh red oak makes a mess of your tools. Evans Funeral Chapel & Cremation Services - Parkville. He had a butt-section of red oak, about 26″ long. The four on the left are 7′ long, 20″+ wide in places. The only plywood in the place, except for the stuff that supports the under-floor insulation. So no problem. A few years later, (1967) Tatsuaki Kuroda visited the same workshops, recording in photos and film some of the chairmaking process. So someday, someone might look at this chair & wonder why one front leg is white oak, and all the others red. If you’d like to help support my work shown on the blog, this donate button will do the trick. February 9th, 2021 - Passed away peacefully with family by his side on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, at Victoria Hospital, in London, following a brave battle with … The way the chest is constructed the lesser strength is not an issue. Here’s as far as I got – the holes I bored are to put the saw in to cut out the hand-hold. Below is a test joint I made a few weeks ago & cut open to peek inside. My goal was (is?) That’s why. The chair work starts at about the 11:00 mark. 512 North Front Street. Join our community of happy customers in Flushing by ordering and supporting your local florist, Flowers by Peter. The instructions I’m using on making this chair are from Drew Langsner’s Fine Woodworking article “Two Board Chairs” in the July/August 1981 issue. Drawbored mortise & tenons throughout. Fifty years after the founding of their business Evans relocated to Mount Royal Avenue in Baltimore, next to the Lyric Theater. There was also a few bits of leftover hickory slabs from sawing something or other. But all in all, this one is fine. These are Curtis Buchanan’s “democratic” chairs (I’m making one side chair, and one arm chair – I hope) – so shaved, not turned. THESE NOTES APPLY ONLY TO RING-POROUS WOODS – THINGS LIKE MAPLE, CHERRY, ETC DIFFER. Maybe it’s a Stern bit, the ones JA switched to after the old Stanley Power-bore bits were discontinued. Aubertine-Lopes Funeral Home, Inc. 129 Allen Street. Generally the spring wood is the same size in each ring – the summer wood can vary from year to year, depending on various factors – light, water/nutrients, competition and more. There’s no tapering top & bottom. It is January, so it should look like this. The updated edition is from 2000. Next photo is of two boards I’ve kept as samples to illustrate this concept for maybe 20 years. The Yorkshire Ripper’s funeral cost taxpayers thousands of pounds. Tomorrow’s another day. I’ve made chairs for 40 years and learned stuff. I think you can still get the videos that Curtis & Elia Bizzarri did over the past couple of months – http://handtoolwoodworking.com/democratic-chair-online-classes/. The rungs on this chair are just over 5/8″ in diameter. Got ’em where I mostly liked them. Red oak stool, white oak seat. Their new updated facilities include the area's first "virtual selection room" where families can make their funeral arrangements via a large computer screen as opposed to an actual showroom. I shot a 2-minute video showing how you can test your chair parts (or possible chair parts). I did some like it in the early 1990s that have held up. Slow-growing ash is fine for this. On the bottom view you can see the year-by-year fracture. I’m making windsor chairs. In the photo above, I bored & reamed a test hole, scribbled inside it with a soft pencil and tried the shaved tenon in the hole. Both a nice surprise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedroom_in_Arles ). Peter was born on Jan. 10, 1972, in Chicago, Ill. As soon as they’re assembled, you’re done. ) “. Most free wood is not worth it, but his is. This chair is one I assembled either in late December or early January. Highly recommended. Hilary J. Bonin Funeral Home, 99 W. Green St., West Hazleton, is assisting the family. I want it to finish about 1 1/4″ at the thick end. You could just as easily wedge it from outside post too.

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