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That was amazing, great video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

Mike! I built my first Windsor from your book with the blue cover. I also did my own research, etc., but what a wonderful form of woodwork. I hope this chance to say Thank You finds you...

Hello Mike, can you please tell me where to find a quality draw knife?

positive reinforcement for my first attempt at one of these marvelous chairs

Great tutorial Mike, thank you for sharing your insight in woodworking.

Great series, thank you for sharing. Wish I would have discovered chair making earlier in my life.

Thank you so much for this tutorial series, the content is excellent, the instructions are very clear and the bonus will be when we create the finished product for ourselves.

So far.. everything 👏👏👏. But the headlights. You just know that those indicators won't be seen with the headlight pointing at you at night.

how to weld the metal tang on a vintage wooden spokeshave. like the one you have. i purchased it online and found out as i was removing the rust that one of the tangs was cracked off. i tryed JD WELD and ca glue mix with salt. no good kept breaking off. a little help please...

He did not explain well the issue of bevel up or down. I think it may be a case of learning to use it one way which soon becomes comfortable, and then deciding that is the proper way. Both drawknives I use were built with the handles bent up from the flat back. That brings them parallel to the stroke with the bevel down, and is most comfortable for me. I understand that a deeper cut can be made with the bevel up, and he illustrates that by taking a deep cut using a chopping motion, something he previously said shouldn't be done That's confusing. Both my knives have a slight curve to the blade, the flat back being convex. With the bevel down , the pressure against the blade tends to straighten the blade out when cutting, so I'm pretty sure they we're designed to work that way . Obviously any carving knife can be used left or right handed so they will cut either way, but the direction of the cut is different than a chef uses carving beef. The draw knife is more complex.

Kia Ora & Good Evening from North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand …great video bro …

Good man, great video very helpful. Thank you.

if this reaches you in a timely way, i just want you to know that i hope you got through all the flooding in hampton beach this past march weekend, i thought of you as soon as i saw it online.....

Hey Mike. Thanks for your sharing the Windsor chair knowledge. Your sackback class was one of the highlights of my life. The chair I built in your class is as solid as it was when I built it in 1998 and it should easily last another 100 years. Hope you are well.

Mike, my late husband attended your school. He love it. He made me two windsor chairs and a bench. I treasure them. Love your youtube channel. Marie

Mike, I'm still enjoying the dack bCk I made in your class 20 years ago.

Awesome! You make it look easy. Thanks for your time. A gift of love to future makers.

Thank you for your kind comments, David. I hope you make a chair that your family will honor and pass on to your descendants. You are correct. The VanHovenometer is named for the student who suggested the idea. That was our practice. When someone had a suggestion that proved to make the process easier for others we honored the guy by naming his suggestion after him. I would then come up with a humorous name for the device or technique.

Mike, These videos are great! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. But I must know! ...please tell us the backstory of the name: VanHoven-ometer? (maybe it could be a CZcams short all it's own) My money is on a former student-or former mentor.

Really, really good thank you

I attended a workshop you had in Atlanta Ga., some 30 years ago. I'm sure you remember that time because President Jimmy Carter attended that session. Glad to see you keep your passion alive. Best to ya

Loving these videos and working my way through them. What a fantastic teacher imparting vast knowledge! I'm almost tempted to embark on a chair making journey myself...

great video ! thank you so much

Danger. Warning. Stop. Do not cut. I love it. Glad I'm not the only one that does that.

Fascinating. I intend to undertake a Windsor chair, and I find this in-depth information fascinating. Thank you.

I love your tool cabinets.

You are a great teacher. I love this videos.

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and collection. Very valuable and appreciated.

Hello Mike. Very good video. What is the brand of milk paint you use? Thank you very much

So useful thank you!

amazing I cant imagine old timers in 1780 s doing this angle work with hand drills!!! the chairs must have costed a fortune for them to buy a months wages>

do you have any skilled people near or in San Diego? Id like to be able to do a hands-on many classes to do and finish a chair !

Mike I LOVE windors!!! please tell us how we purchase one of these from you??

Your video is good, clear, instructional and informative. Thank you! ❤❤❤👏👏👏👍👍👍

Would you know when they started using rush seats in Windsor chairs?

Great video! Thank you

Hello! I just wanted to say thank you for your wonderful lectures. I love researching about furniture history and often times it is difficult to find in depth information online. This whole series is wonderful and appreciated!

Now I know why I always loved the Windsor chair.

Spent the first ten minutes of the video trying to find a gutter adze for under $200. Failed. Now learning a lot about the scorp market...woof.

This is one of the BEST CZcams videos I have seen about Windsor chairs!!!

Πολύ καλό και χρήσιμο μαθημα. Πολύ καλή ικανότητα μετάδοσης της γνώσης. 👍

Loved this. Learned a lot.

Great video!

Thanks Mike for everything you taught me. Be well Bob Behrens

Guys and Gals use hand planes.

Well well. Love your video sir. I'm a longbow maker from UK and use several draw knives. I love these things. I think you made two very important statements. 1. Always slice and 2. Use it in the way that feels comfortable. I see you are a maker of windsor chairs. My wife's parents come from Windsor. We spend quite a lot of time there. Anyway, excellent video and keep up the good work.

I remember much of my class 30 years ago, and I recalled many things watching the prior videos in the series. But this episode is very good for me; for whatever reason I don’t recall this portion of constructing the chair. Maybe because virtually all of the other steps involved processes that translated to my carpentry career and woodworking, but scraping and sizing “dowels” wasn’t something I ever needed to do. I appreciate this resource.

8:10 I’ve never tried it, probably because turning a spindle drawknived so thin isn’t practical or possible, but it’s occasionally occurred to me that I could turn the bottoms just like the forward spindles, and then do the tops with a drawknife. While I’ve repaired a bunch of chairs and made other styles, the only sack back I ever made was in the class in 1994 or 95- a long long time ago. But I thought about it…

2:30 plus a shave horse takes up a bunch of space in the shop that never has enough space anyway… and you need the bench with various vises for a million other things.

Well done