Chair Making

You can watch 'em make chairs till the cows come home. But doing it? That's another thing entirely.

The combination of angles and curves in a Chippendale-style chair can seem complex, but the techniques needed are not out of reach.

Learn when it's best to saw, steam-bend, or laminate parts for chairs and other projects.

Learn how to master the drawknife, a brilliantly simple shaping tool that’s versatile, fast, and a pleasure to use.

This elegant design delivers a strong, stable structure and a powerful grip.

With practice, and these tips from Curtis Buchanan, using the shaving horse will become second nature.

Windsor-style chairs present new challenges to even experienced furniture makers. However, with a little patience the new tools and new techniques become valuable additions to your woodworking knowledge.

Taken from issue #25 of Fine Woodworking, Maloof describes his first experience with a client and her interior decorator