Chairs, Benches And Stools - Page 5 of 18

With its roots in a classic three-slat design, Tim Manney's modern ladderback is built from straight-grained maple with turned legs.

Philip Morley, Libby Schrum, and Kris Burns give their insights into how they designed a modern lounge chair, including the critical details they included and the personal details they added to the iconic Mid-Century style.

Learn how to use riven stock, wet/dry joinery, and natural hickory bark for the stool seat.

A workshop tip on how to make a simple depth gauge for hand-shaped chair seats.

Simple bends provide stability and visual flair for this light, comfortable bar stool.

Unsurprisingly, the journey of a windsor chairmaker is rarely a straight line

The tail jaw of a 3/4-in. pipe clamp makes a perfect seat-adjustment mechanism.

Tim Killen makes great use of SketchUp's intersect tool to model a complicated 3d piece

Tom McLaughlin builds a comfortable, contemporary take on the classic backyard chair.

For a new project in the shop, I picked a Windsor Chair and a style I had not done before. Of course, this required SketchUp modeling based on a Rod-Back…