Made You Look: Irish Chair Maker John Surlis
An episode from a Irish docuseries called “Hands” shows Surlis make a stick chair from an ash log.
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Chairs
Easy angled holes on a drill press
Beth Ireland’s jig eliminates the need to make multiple angled drilling platforms for your drill press.
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Ep 28: Completing the Queen Anne sidechair
In the final episode of this series, Dan Faia demonstrates how to fit a seat frame for the chair and how to properly prepare for upholstery.
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309-The Poetic Stump
Kieran Kinsell makes curved and faceted stools and tables from logs harvested a few miles from his home in the Hudson valley of New York state.
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Understanding wood grain
Peter Galbert learned a method for riving parts from sawn and dried planks. It has changed his perspective, and it might change yours, too.
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Ep 27: Final glue-up of the chair
In the penultimate episode, it all comes together in final glue up of Dan Faia’s Queen Anne chair.
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