Build a Chippendale Side Chair

Please come and learn the construction tehniques needed to build a chair. Many cabinetmakers say if you can build a chair you can build anything

Building a chair will expose you to many different aspects of furniture construction. Mortise and tenon joinery is a requisite for chair construction. Compound angles are a must to build a chair. This class could be your entranceway to Quantum physics.

Wood you believe that a chair can hold the weight of a woman or man for both comfortable and uncomfortable moments during dinner. When I am uncomfortable I squirm in my seat. Imagine 100 years of countless squirming in a chair that you built. I would like my great grandchild to be well supported.

Working out both back posts ate the same time will save countless headaches. Only one of many methods to speed up and enhance you final product

Learn to layout and produce an angled mortise so that the straight side rail tenon has no apologies for the sands of time. This method of construction will hold up better than an angled tenon by design. 

Once the basic  layout and construction methods are realized any embellishment can be added to whatever chair you desire to produce.