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Entirely by Hand

Chairmaker Don Weber offers a sample of how simple projects can spring from the forest and the sweat of your brow.

A few years ago, I needed a bedside table for my cuppa and a book on those rare "lie-in" mornings. The table was so simple to build that I now have similar tables all over my shop, including near my wood stove, next to my favorite chair and near my front door to hold a portfolio of my work for customers to see.

Like my Windsor and Welsh-style stick chairs, I make this table without machines and from wood harvested locally and split in the lot behind my shop and home.

If you'll follow along as I build my latest table, I'll introduce you to some of the tools of my trade and show you how they're used. And, perhaps, pique your interest enough that you might want to give it a go yourself.

Beetle, Froe and Axe

Being a chairmaker who always works directly from the log instead of the lumberyard, I have a nice-sized cache of logs outside the back of my shop. There I also keep my beetle (a large, iron-bound mallet), wedges and a froe. The froe

by Don Weber

Don Weber specializes in Windsor and Welsh-style stick chairs. Also a teacher and blacksmith, he currently resides in Paint Lick, Ky. You can visit his web site at handcraftwoodworks.com.

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Popular Woodworking April 2004