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determined to get our chairs assembled before we packed up the parts to carry them through customs into the United States. Fleming was happy to oblige and we drove ourselves mercilessly into the evening, fitting each spindle as we listened to an avant garde piece of music that seemed to go on for hours (and still occasionally haunts my dreams). In the end we both got our chairs assembled and sat in them for the first time - a magic moment. Fleming had some beer cooling in the basement and we bought a pizza to celebrate. The next day we walked our boxes of chair parts through tight international security. ("You say you have a chair in there, eh?") When I got back to my shop I laid out all the parts on my bench. It was then I knew that I had been bitten by the same chairmaking bug as Fleming and thousands of other woodworkers. Once I got that first stick chair assembled I began making plans for my second one. And then I'll move on to replacing the hideous chairs in our dining room. While I still have much to learn (this was my first green-wood chair after all), the lesson I'm mastering right now is to adopt the same steady patience that guides Fleming. As I take my scorp to a piece of tulip poplar that will be the seat of my next chair I wonder if I'm going to split this one, too. Or perhaps I'm going to saddle it too deeply. But then I stop and think about the class. "Remember," Fleming says, "there is always a Plan B.'" PW With all the spindles shaped and the holes drilled, Fleming tests the fit of the bow onto this assembly. Boring the spindle holes in the seats. The sliding bevel on Fleming positions the bow on one of the drilling jigs and the seat and pencil lines guide the work. the "horns" of the chair, which are the curved spindles underneath the arms at the front. CLASSES & RESOURCES Country Workshops, Drew Langsner 990 Black Pine Ridge Road Marshall, NC 28753 828-656-2280 or countryworkshops.org Handcraft Woodworks, Don Weber P.O. Box 19 Paint Lick, KY 40461 859-925-9225 or handcraftwoodworks.com Spokeshave Woodwork, David Fleming P.O. Box 192 Cobden, ON K0J 1K0 Canada 613-646-2356 or spokeshave.ca The Windsor Institute, Mike Dunbar 44 Timber Swamp Road Hampton, NH 03842 603-929-9801 or thewindsorinstitute.com For information on tools, more books and chairmaking sites on the Internet, also visit the Windsor Chair Resources at windsorchairresources.com. 48 Popular Woodworking November 2004 |
