• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Chair

Well, it looks like the draw knife and the shave horse works.

Is that ash?
 
Judging by the build up on the ground I'd hazard a guess you might be at Peter's Woodland establishment?
What sort you aiming for Pete?
Cheers, Andy
 
It's such a satisfying way of working. The harder you pull, the tighter the shaving horse grips. The dangerous looking blade is perfectly safe, because your arms just don't let it come back far enough to cut you. Adjusting the thickness of the shaving soon comes naturally and rotating the work for the next cut wastes no time for releasing the grip.

Just add sunshine and birdsong in the woods. :)
 
That does look very special. I particularly like the way the heartwood/sapwood stripe in the seat is echoed by the stripe in the yew slat.
 
Mike G said:
Making one looks difficult enough. Making a matching pair would be a whole other test.
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One chap was on his 3rd visit making 3rd chair so it is possible, plus they don’t have to be an exact match they aren’t that type of chair.

Pete
 
Thanks for all the likes chaps.

Off to York for a couple days so when I get back I will finish it off and post another photo, I got some of the hard wax oil from Aldi they had on offer it seems to be good, very little change in colour.

Pete
 
All good fun. And a nice result. If you make another, I think embracing the natural differences while keeping some stylistic link is the way to go rather than trying for a match - that would be missing the point a bit.

In memory of my friend and fellow woodworker Andy who shared this idea with me, an invaluable tool when shaving your legs is a collection of holes. They can be in scraps of plywood, whatever. 1 3/4" is a useful size. As a gauge. Initially use the hole to draw a circle on the ends, start shaving from the end, when the hole slides over the leg, you are to the right shape and size. A squint is useful to make sure progress from the ends meets nicely in the middle. But if you are steam bending legs with a former, if they have a bit of a curve, not to worry, just go with it.

I need to find a spare ash tree somewhere; I have had a chair minus the back legs sitting in pieces for years.
 
For me finding the right wood would be the hardest thing for me, probably easer to book another course.
I did the ply with a tenon hole for my stools as the rest didn’t matter it worked well.


Pete
 
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