Welsh Stick Chairs <BR>by John Brown

You can download an excerpt of this book here. What's a stick chair? You can learn all about them here. "Welsh Stick Chairs" by John Brown is a small but mighty book. At 104 pages long, this book can be read in an afternoon, but it has changed the lives of thousands of woodworkers all over the globe. John Brown (1933-2008) was a chairmaker in Wales who specialized in Welsh stick chairs, a vernacular form of furniture that was typically made by the end users. Compared to Windsor chairs, Welsh stick chairs are masculine, lively and even sometimes a bit aggressive. They are built with simple hand tools and (when made properly) are designed to last for hundreds of years. John Brown made hundreds of these chairs, and in 1990, he published a small book that explained how he made the chairs, plus some history of chairmaking in Wales and a critique of the Windsor chairs they were sometimes confused with. The book electrified woodworkers everywhere. Even those who weren't chairmakers were fasci