Chairmaker's Notebook - Hardcover

Peter Galbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0990623033 ISBN 13: 9780990623038

Publisher: Lost Art Press, LLC, 2015

Synopsis

Written & illustrated by Peter Galbert Whether you are an aspiring professional chairmaker, an experienced green woodworker or a home woodworker curious about the craft, “Chairmaker’s Notebook” is an in-depth guide to building your first Windsor chair or an even-better 30th one. Using more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations, Peter Galbert walks you through the entire process, from selecting wood at the log yard, to the chairs’ robust joinery, to applying a hand-burnished finish. And if you’ve never thought about building a chair, this book might convince you to try. Building a chair will open your eyes to ways of working wood that you might miss if you stay in the rectilinear world of boxes. Once you understand chairmaking, then odd and compound angles become child’s play. You will know how wood works in a deeper way (and how to exploit it). And you will gain access to an arsenal of open-ended tools, such as the drawknife, that will fundamentally change the way you work – plus expand the shapes and surfaces you can produce.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lost Art Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0990623033
• ISBN 13: 9780990623038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1