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I ran into Dewey this morning with my coffee. Turn the volume on if you watch it,..acoustics are great. Not a power tool one used as far as I could find. Not many hand tools for that matter.
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I was doing some repair and build work at the furniture bank this morning. While walking from the work area to the office, I saw this chair sitting in inventory. I asked one of the managers if she'd consider selling. She did and I brought it home. Someone probably just gave them "a dirty old chair." It's a very classic design and has a genuine hickory bast woven seat. It appears that maybe the front legs were turned or delicately carved a bead. But otherwise, it's very similar to one I made. In 1992, I took a week-long class in western NC with Drew Langsner at his farm. It was a class in "Make a Chair from a Tree" by J. Alexander. We started off Monday morning with a log, had a couple of field trips during the week, and left Friday noon with a chair. Wedge, froe, drawknife, spokeshave, brace & bit, and chisel were the only tools we used all week. Every piece has grain orientation to maximize strength of the joints (wet-dry joinery). The posts were slightly wet and the rungs over-dried in a homemade kiln. When the equalize, they lock in place. 28 years later, they're still no wobble in them. Take that, dowel joints. Since I didn't have a spare hickory tree that I could sacrifice for the bast, I used Shaker tape.
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