Why not buy a book on making a chair? Make A Windsor Chair by
Mike/Michael Dunbar is out of date but of a great help. Some technique
in this book is not correct and out of date.

Drew Langsner's The Chairmakers Workshop is very good. This book is up
to date.

Both books will help with making replacement parts.

By all means use green wood for turning. For one thing its easier to
turn then dry wood. It also dries to an oval shape rether then a round
shape, thus giving it the same shape as the originals. Spindles and
strecthers must be dry when joining.

On 23 Jan 2005 16:00:47 -0800, "CRR" wrote:

Why not buy a book on making a chair? Make A Windsor Chair by
Mike/Michael Dunbar is out of date but of a great help.

For the S/H price of those two books, I can have a Windsor chair made
for me !

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:36:23 +0000, the inscrutable Andy Dingley
spake:

On 23 Jan 2005 16:00:47 -0800, "CRR" wrote:

Why not buy a book on making a chair? Make A Windsor Chair by
Mike/Michael Dunbar is out of date but of a great help.

For the S/H price of those two books, I can have a Windsor chair made
for me !

Yeah, the price the Dunbar book is fetching is outrageous, isn't it?


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