
Making A Chair Part Four - Leg It
It’s been a hectic few weeks in the workshop. Making furniture has taken priority over writing about it, and I hope you’ll all agree that’s how it should be. I’ve finally got room full of brand new chairs and a delivery van booked for the morning, might as well sit down and continue the story…

Making A Chair Part Three - Carving The Seat
A confession - when I first started making chairs, I began to wonder if I couldn’t just set up a machine to do this job. It seemed to take hours. My knuckles started to bleed while my fitness watch assumed I was swimming the channel. Not much fun, but I stuck at it.

Making A Chair Part Two - Steambending
Steambending wood is like being goalkeeper for a rubbish football team. Long periods of boredom punctuated by a few seconds of frenetic activity, where you can get everything right and still somehow lose.

Making A Chair Part One - Timber
There’s a low sun and long shadows as I head over the Ridgeway towards Tyler Hardwoods.

A Year In Chairmaking
Today marks my first twelve months as a full-time chairmaker - time flies when you’re faffing about trying to sharpen a spokeshave.


Tempting Fête
Summer’s sort of here…in this little corner of Buckinghamshire that means it’s village fête season.