Windsor Chair

A professor of entrepreneurship at a technical university in South Korea, Steve designed these stools to teach an intermediate-level woodworking extracurricular class. The idea was to build a stool that…

Tim Killen demonstrates his hands-on method for converting turnings into simple shapes using the polygon tool in SketchUp.

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…

Simple really, we ask Peter questions, and he answers them

With practice, and these tips from Curtis Buchanan, using the shaving horse will become second nature.

I've finished the seat and undercarriage, now the top part of the Windsor Chair is remaining work to do. That means steam bending a bow and turning some spindles. Unfortunately,…

In the last episode, we completed the undercarriage of the chair with the legs and stretchers in place and connected to the seat. At this stage of design you could…

In the last session, I positioned the legs at their respective angles to the seat face. We used angles specified by the Fine Woodworking article and used the sight lines…

In the last session, I compiled the Windsor seat component with spindle and leg sockets. I also carved a gutter decoration separating the spindle socket platform from the front of the seat. I…

This is Part 2 of "Making an Un-braced Bowback Windsor Chair". Last time I showed the tracing of the magazine drawing of the seat. And we made three components from these tracings…