Chairs, chairs, chairs...

I’m just back from a week of chairmaking at Pete Galbert’s shop with Joel Paul helping me teach 8 students how to make Jennie Alexander’s ladderback chair. It was a great class - had its moments of doubt and pain - but all the chairs went together and are off to their various homes. Five or six of the students had never made a chair before, some had never used the various hand tools - brace and bit, drawknife, etc. 

(Joel demo-ing shaving rungs. https://www.instagram.com/13starsfarm/?hl=en )

I had great plans for coming home and making a chair right away to cement the ideas that invariably come up when teaching. Just ways to streamline this step or that. But as I was unpacking the car and sorting the various tools and chair parts I found out I had at least 3, probably 4 ladderbacks that are each about 1/2 an hour from being finished. So my next tasks are to finish each of them and post them for sale. Pegging slats, trimming feet and then photographing them. Not today, though.