A working notebook for chairmakers

Chairs, from first split to final sightline.

Field notes, practical tools, classes worth knowing about, and an experiment in turning photographs back into shop drawings.

The work

Four ways into a chair.

One field guide, one drawing experiment, and two practical references. Everything here is built to be used at the bench—or to help you find one.

A field guide to a Tasmanian folk form: its history, wood science, and an honest hand-tool build from green log to finished chair.

Turn photographs of a chair into a chairmaker’s measured drawing: plan, elevations, sightlines, and the angles to drill by.

The working kit for chairmaking from green logs or sawn boards, with buying options in the order I would reach for them.

A searchable calendar of US chair-building classes, plus the schools and teaching shops worth watching for the next one.