The Free Video Series of ‘Build a Chair from Bulls%$t’

Bridgid Gruber (and Kale) are your guides through the “bulls%$t.”

We have just launched a free 12-part video series that accompanies the new book “Build a Chair from Bulls%$t” and walks you through the chairmaking project.

Filmed by Bridgid Gruber (of Dinkle’s Woodshop) and apprentice Kale Vogt, the video walks you through every single stage of the process, from collecting the materials at the home center to painting the assembled chair.

Bridgid and Kale also bring their own perspective and humor to the project. They filmed the whole thing with complete creative freedom. And they spent months editing the video, adding graphics and generally making the video fun to watch.

We’re offering this video for free forever to help make chairmaking more accessible. In addition to the free video (it starts here), you can download a pdf of the book for free here and download free full-size patterns for the chair here.

And the book itself is only $21 (but is still made in the USA to our rigorous library-grade specifications).

This project – which we lovingly call the “BS Chair” – is made from home center materials and built with home center tools. Anyone can do it. Wanna see proof? Watch Kale and Bridgid make the journey for the first time in this great video:

Build a Chair From Bulls%$t: Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Visiting the Home Center
Chapter 3 – Tools
Chapter 4 – Making the Patterns
Chapter 5 – Gluing up the Seat
Chapter 6 – Sandwich Drilling
Chapter 7 – Creating the Leg Tenons
Chapter 8 – Making Wedges and Leg Glue-Up
Chapter 9 – Leveling the Legs
Chapter 10 – Gluing Up the Arm and Sticks
Chapter 11 – Attaching the Comb
Chapter 12 – Painting