Recreating an 18th century Windsor chair with traditional hand tools
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2019
- Rob Ley using a bottoming adze and flat carpenters adze to recreate an early example of a Windsor chair, using traditional hand tools of the time.
Thanks to William Sergeant of the Lincolnshire Chair Museum for the loan of the original chair and The Regional Furniture Society for providing information.
Have been lucky enough to meet Rob this week while walking in the Wolds past his location lovely place and his work is outstanding Stephen & Edward
Love watching artists who work with hand tools. I'm going to save up and go on a course on making a Windsor chair.
I've subbed. 👌👍
Super adze work
Looking forward to the ongoing story
Your very skilled with the adze. I didn't know you could get that detail with it. I don't have an adze so I use a draw knife and scorp. Well done.
Thanks Kelsey👍
Fantastic. More please!
Thanks Julian. That was part one. We’ll get another done in the next couple of weeks.
Marvelously skillful
Thanks Andrew. I’ll have another open day soon and maybe you’ll be able to visit again.
Thoroughly enjoyed that Rob, thanks!
need to get uploading again love your work!
That's brilliant, Rob; thanks for organising the recording of you at work; this is Lincolnshire vernacular furniture from 300 years ago brought back to life.
Thanks William. It’s what I like to do.
Rob, YOU are a real master in your craft, amazing skill and ability, young man, you deserve full recognition
Thanks Leon. I love my time in the woods making things with old hand tools.
Rob, you make it seem so easy and natural
Leon Cohen I remember when I first started making windsor chairs in the early eighties. My ached like hell. Not any more.
It was my back that ached by the way.
great video, Thanks. Love to see part 2.....
Mesmerizing: thank you.
Still looking forward to part 2!
Awesome 😍
Very good. This man is in superior physical condition.
Thanks. Not bad for my age
Great content
Hard work adding dry wood😀
That’s brilliant, can’t wait to see part 2.
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This was great to watch. Any idea when the next video will be released? Cannot wait to see the rest of the techniques you will use!
Thanks Oisin. I will try and get something sorted soon. I’m a bit disorganised as far as filming is concerned.
Brilliant! How wide is the seat?
Do you know the wood of the original part of the chair? (The video mentioned elm and ash in the replacement parts, but I’m curious to know the original wood species.)
The original chair seat is made from ash. I didn’t have any ash that big but I do have elm which is a good seat wood. I’ll fell a big ash after these gales blow over and convert it for future use.
1:14 - "All forts of Winfor chairs" - why are the S's replaced with F's ?
Old style long 's' that looked very like an f. Went out of fashion in the mid 18th century.
@@regionalfurnituresociety interesting, thanks for the insight ! You learn something new every day
@@acanadianwoodworker it was never used if the ‘s’ was the last letter of the word- only beginning and middle.
This isn’t a dig, but I watch these guys making stuff the way it used to be done, and think to myself, if you could bring those old guys into a modern workshop, I know they would choose the, DeWalt thicknesser or Makita mitre saw.. etc. They wouldnt give half a farthing for a flat adz!
You arrive at that conclusion because you don’t understand how to build things I suspect.
There’s been many a jobsite I’ve walked on with my basic carpentry tools and other than the power miter saw and table saw- if even needed- I’m at work with two or three trips inside with my box and a bucket of traditional tools. On the big jobs all the other workmen are still wheeling in with their folding saw stands and once they finally get going I’ve been already working for some time. And while they re-cut and calculate their angles and fitment and try to biscuit stuff, me and my hand planes, old-fashioned scribes, chisels, and wooden-handled hammer usually can do 125% to 150% their productivity at the same quality expectation.
Building a Windsor is a tedious process yet it’s both easy and accurate without any power tools needed. Few if any ‘mistakes’ occur and those that do most often are absorbed by body english and simply the organic process of constructing the chair.
Add power tools to the mix and you might do some tasks faster in the process but you will have more unrecoverable mistakes- never mind losing the esthetics of the workman and the productivity losses of compounding error. Too much accuracy applied to an art is visually “colder” and has an institutional, uninviting tactile presence.
Not understanding that tactile and esthetic elements are not features but rather revelations bequeathed as a gift to the end user is common- don’t feel too badly. Lots of folks look at handcraft and in their laziness think, “that’s too much work” and so they employ machinery to ease their discomfiture- spending much time sanding afterwards to cover up their tool marks and errors.
There’s little, very little, benefits to many modern and post-modern ideologies when applied to handcrafted chairs or even the leather-wrapped interior door pull of a Maserati or Rolls-Royce where the felt but not seen heavy stitching cords are intentional- specified to communicate to the user an esthetic through a tactile-only sensory exposure.
Newer methods are not always better.
Not understanding that the consequential byproduct of these sensory tool methods is an essential part of the value of the finished chair is an unfortunate consequence of the societal trend of the current generation’s swallowing the koolaid- everything ‘old’ is inferior or inefficient. A chair is not just a chair- it can be much more than a chair.
@@fishhuntadventure actually you know all, I am well aware of how to make stuff and if you think a sawyer in a saw pit was happy getting covered in crap then you are unfortunately living in la la land.. like Any trades person, its all about quality in the quickest time so they can move to the next job.
That does not look easy.
Hi Kun, I bought my first adze nearly 50 years ago and have been using them regularly ever since. It is still physically hard work though.
@@ailbyashholt3532 thats awesome man. I just started wood working and i try to do as much as possible with hand tools. Its harder and more time consuming, but i get more satisfaction out of it. Its just a hobby so im in no rush to finish my projects.