The Stick Chair Book: 2nd Revised Edition
This book is signed by the author. The first 1,000 people who order will receive a free "stick chair merit badge." You can download a free PDF of this book by clicking here. No need to register or give your email or anything. Just click here. by Christopher Schwarz You don't have to be a highly skilled woodworker to make a chair. And you don't have to be insanely wealthy to own a nice one, either. The truth is that everyday woodworkers – farmers, amateurs and people in other trades – made wonderful chairs using common woodworking tools and whatever wood was available: dry, wet, soft, hard or the branches plucked from a tree. “The Stick Chair Book: 2nd Revised Edition” explores the craft of “hedge carpenters” who built chairs for the everyday home. The chairs they made weren’t designed to impress the gentry – they were designed to be comfortable, stout and (if you have a good eye) nice to look at. After 22 years of building vernacular stick chairs and studying historical examples in th