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No Aliens, Just Furniture
I recently broke out my new VEVOR Inflatable Paint Booth for the first time. My neighbor said it looked like the tent that the government set up in front of the house in the movie E.T. Just to clear things up, I am not harboring any stranded aliens. I’m just…
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A Small Detour
When my daughter was born, I had the idea to build chairs for her as she grows. Someday, this may leave her with a burdensome amount of chairs but that is her problem, not mine. I finished the first one for her first birthday. She doesn’t know how to sit…
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Moving Along
The Irish stick chair is moving along. Putting the details aside, the base is nothing more than some sticks mortised into a plank. Not overly complex stuff, although it took some creativity to deal with the stock at times. As you can see in the picture below, not all of…
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Modifying the Scorp
After beating my head against a wall for a few weeks, the scorp is back in working order. Historically, I’ve been a buyer of new tools and not a modifier of old ones. I don’t get much shop time, and when I do, I’d rather spend it building furniture. This…
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Shaving Sticks
I haven’t had much time to post over the past couple of months but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy. The flood gates will open once I find some time to document what I’ve been working on. After a mad dash to finish the first of four plant stands…
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Finishing the Perch
It’s time to wrap up the perch. Once the glue had set, I finished shaping the seat using a travisher and spokeshave, then smoothed everything out with a card scraper. It’s been years since I’ve worked with a properly tuned card scraper, and I had forgotten just how enjoyable they…
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Under Tension
The Perch build is officially going the distance. Assembling the undercarriage was more interesting than I anticipated, so I’ll dedicate this post to that process and show off the finished piece in my next post. Turning the legs was relatively uneventful. I still have a ways to go before reliably…
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Starting with the Seat
The first step for my Irish Stick Chair build is carving the seat. I’ve been hesitant to start because I’ve never carved a chair seat before, and the oak that I’m using will not be particularly easy to carve. Fortunately, I found inspiration while reading through old Chair Notes posts…
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A Little Creepie
A “creepie” is an Irish or Scottish term referring to a rustic three-legged stool that I first stumbled upon in Chris Schwartz’s Anarchist Design Book. I’m not well studied enough to say what, if anything, makes a creepie particularly unique but I find the term quite endearing. Most of the…
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Foray into Green Woodworking
I haven’t quite caught the “chair bug” yet, but the more I venture into chairmaking—Windsor and stick chairs in particular—the more intrigued I become. For woodworkers, such as myself, with a background almost exclusively in casework type furniture, chairmaking can seem like an entirely different discipline. Proficiency using hand tools…
Welcome to the Workshop
Denis Rezendes
Welcome to the Workshop 