This is the second chair I made at Westonbirt. As I say in the guide, I took the sticks nearer the edge of the chair and widened the carved shape in the middle. The carved area was started with an adze and finished with a gouge. The legs are shorter and the back sticks longer, as I experimented with a different form for a different shaped person.
The chair also reflects different tools. To make the tenons and the dowel part of the back sticks on the first chair, I used Paul Hayden’s home made rounding planes. For the back sticks this meant the plane was clamped to a post, the other end of the stick put into a brace and then slowly turned through the plane.
The chair is popular with one member of Ruth’s book group, though it has a thin cushion on at the moment.