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LADDER-BACK CHAIR xx CHAIR xx FURNITURE Shaker ladderback chair features a woven rush seat. Made from 2" kiln dried hard beech. Most of the chair is turned on the lathe. An ivory inlay (from broken piano keys) on tops of front and back legs provides a unique finishing touch. Shaker "elders" armchair is a five-slat ladderback with a woven slat seat. Green woodworking. Description of a week-long chairmaking workshop in which the participants learned to make a ladderback chair with woven splint seats. Photos and diagrams illustrate the process. Description of the "bulb-shaped" joint used to join posts-to-rungs in ladder-back and Windsor chairs from the early 18th century till late 19th century. Convert an inexpensive factory-built chair into an "antique ladderback" by changing the finish and installing a different finial. Build a hardwood ladder-back chair with a sloping seat, raking back and curved slats for comfortable sitting. Features a woven seat of rush or oak splits. Two woodworking projects that duplicate work done by Abraham Lincoln. (1) A bootjack. (2) A rustic ladderback chair with a woven splint seat. Captain's chair of Danish design features two back styles, plain or ladder-back. Ladder-back dining chair. Curved back legs and curved slats are cut on the band saw and router table. Legs are joined with mortise and tenon joinery. Seats are plywood covered with foam and fabric. Ladderback rocking chair features steam-bent back slats and hand-shaved posts and rungs. The seat is woven splint. Steaming advice. Tips on steaming and bending ash for ladderback chairs. Country chairs and chairmaking. Part 3. Ladderbacks. Includes diagrams for constructing ladderbacks and spindlebacks. Country chairs and chairmaking. Part 5. Rush seating of ladderbacks and spindlebacks. How to weave rush seats. Construction of a characteristic ladderback chair. Features 5 ladder rails and a rush-seat. Shaken not turned. Three sizes of Shaker ladder-back chairs to build. Circular posts are cut with a "rounder" instead of a lathe. Jigs for achieving the properly angled mortise-and-tenon joints described. Clissett-style ladder-back rocking chair reproduction (circa 1890). Involves steam bending, angled jointing, and rush-seat weaving. Ladderback-style chair doubles as a clothes valet in a bedroom. Gimson ladderback chair. A more refined version of the Clissett rush-seated chairs (circa 1888). This project is taken from the "Country Chair Making" book. Shaker slat-back side chair with a worsted-tape woven seat. Reproduction of a New Lebanon (NY) chair (circa 1830). Ladder-back chair modeled after a 1740 chair. | |||||||||
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