How-To
The Right Angles for a Comfortable Windsor
If you want to design a Windsor—or tweak a traditional Windsor design—it’s very helpful to have the angles worked out at the start.
There are no set values for the critical angles in a Windsor chair. Rake, splay, cant, and slouch can all be adjusted through a range of angles, depending on the style and function of the chair. All of the angles are interrelated and even on the same chair the rake and splay will differ between the front legs and the back legs.
The front legs of a Windsor provide side-to-side stability, so they have a greater splay angle than the back legs. The back legs provide resistance to the backward momentum of the sitter, so they have a greater rake angle than the front legs.
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I'm getting ready to build a windsor bench-- about 40" long. Will the angles in this article apply to a bench or just a chair?
Kyle
New Orleans, LA
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