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Going with the grain, making chairs in the 21st century, Mike Abbott

eng

illustrations

no index present

non fiction

Going with the grain

867733048

Mike Abbott

making chairs in the 21st century

Introduction -- Why make cleft-wood chairs? -- Wood for chair-making -- Cleaving -- Shaping the components -- Chair joints -- Some more useful tools -- Making a shaving horse -- Making a club and a pin -- Making a chair-maker's bench -- Making the basic components -- Making a foot stool -- Making a tall stool -- Steam-bending -- Making parts for a spindle-back chair -- Assembling the spindle-back chair -- Making a lath-back chair -- Making a wee-wor chair -- Seat weaving -- The scrapbook