Video: Make a Gibson Chair with Christopher Schwarz

The Irish Gibson Chair is one of the most comfortable stick chair forms. With its raking back and low seat, the chair cradles your body in a pleasant and relaxing position.It also is a fairly straightforward chair to build and is suitable for beginning chairmakers.In this video, Christopher Schwarz walks you through how he builds his take on the Gibson chair. He uses common wood from the the lumberyard and (for the most part) standard bench tools, such as a drill and a jack plane. Few specialty tools are required. Plus, Schwarz shows you how to solve many tricky layout problems in chairmaking with a cheap construction laser.The video is three hours long, but is densely packed with the critical information on how to build the chair and avoid the common pitfalls encountered by beginning chair makers. In addition to the video, buyers will receive a pdf of full-size patterns for the chair, which can be printed out at any photocopy store. Plus a cutting list and a complete list of the tools