The movie selection today does not adequately cover everything we did. It does not cover the empanadas. Or the pastries. Or the bourbon slushes.
It also doesn’t cover the fact that we made most of the sticks and tenoned them. Tomorrow we will shave all the sticks to shape, clean up the arms and assemble the chairs.
Then maybe some more bourbon slushes (and a well-deserved merit badge).
— Christopher Schwarz
None of these chairs are the same. Not the rake and splay of the legs or undercarriage. Not the arms or hands. Not the position of the sticks. So yeah, stick chairs are on the menu.
Today: stretchers, arms and shoes. And pizza. (Thanks to Jared Wayne from Taglio for an amazing lunch.)
This week we are running a stick chair class for six students with Aspen Golann as the co-instructor. The class was organized by The Chairmaker’s Toolbox, and the students are all teachers or woodworkers who want to become teachers.
The goal is for all of the students to have one stick chair complete by the end of the week – plus a bunch of parts started for their next stick chair.
Lost Art Press readers donated all the money we needed to buy wood and supplies for the class. Plus pastries and hot lunches for the entire week. So thanks again for your help.
Sorry this video is a little short. Tomorrow’s will be longer and better….
— Christopher Schwarz
While my personal tools stay in my tool chest, we keep the communal ones hanging on the wall behind my bench for students or visiting instructors to use without guilt or asking.
Our “tool wall” is made up of three panels of cherry that cover three bookcases. For most of the year, our shop looks like the photo above. But when we open the shop to the public, we remove the tool walls to reveal our selection of books behind.
It’s a little awkward, but the books are protected from dust, and our workshop doesn’t look like a bookstore.
Several internet readers have asked us about the tools on the wall. Some of them look non-standard or odd. So we shot this short video that goes over the tools on the left side of the wall (the video was shot and edited by our intern, Harper Haynes). We’ll do videos on the other two panels shortly.
— Christopher Schwarz