recent white oak & hickory chair

I know it sounds like Yogi Berra's "Deja Vu all over again", but we have ONE MORE last-minute opening in the upcoming ladderback chair class. Last week I posted about an opening, we filled it, then a different student had to drop out. So if you are interested and available (and vaccinated) here's the lowdown about the class.

The class covers making the chair the way I learned it with Jennie Alexander - splitting and shaving the parts from green oak, working with what we call "wet/dry" joinery (it's more complicated than that, we'll get into it) chopping slat mortises and all the necessary setup and angles for boring the mortises. Then forming the tenons on kiln-dried rungs and assembly. Shaping and bending the two slats and final trimming of the chair. Seat weaving - I'll be able to demonstrate it, some will have time for weaving seats, but I have NO materials for student's seats. The hickory bark JA preferred is hard to come by commercially, Shaker tape is a good alternative.

The recently published 3rd edition of Make a Chair from a Tree outlines the methods JA used once she began teaching the class after the first edition came out in 1978. I'll have a couple of Alexander's chairs with me, as well as a recent one of my own. And to have Pete Galbert as the host and resident chairmaking fiend - how could it be better?

Email me and we can sort the details out if you're able to join us. peterfollansbee7@gmail.com