Why The Greenwood Chair Made In A Day From A Tree Does Not Fall Apart
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Revealing the secrets of green woodworking and how we use the forces of nature with wood drying out to get really strong joints in the chair made from a tree in a day. This film will really help you if you are thinking of building a greenwood chair or stool, and explains how to position mortise and tenon joints for maximum strength, and how to shape them to avoid splitting as the chair dries.
The link to the "Can we make a chair in a day?" film is here:
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Here is a link to the Mike Abbott Living Wood book:
UK Amazon: amzn.to/2ONlNcA
US Amazon: amzn.to/2Dvl4vo
Here is a link to the John Alexander book:
UK Amazon: amzn.to/2OQjQfe
US Amazon: amzn.to/2xSAYKm - Jak na to + styl
I can confirm that since we purchased it at the Bodgers Ball it has not fallen to bits in its much loved place in our dining room . X
Ah that's very good to hear Kevin. We certainly enjoyed making it, and it's lovely to know it is being enjoyed...thanks.
I started watching your channel from the video with the making of that tree, great work!
Thanks for the book references, the first one is available on amazon for not too much money.
Thanks for suggesting book.
Fascinating Harry.
Once again you hit it out of the park... plus working with green wood you have instant gratification... but I remembered what the gentleman said when setting in the seat..."I'LL TAKE FOUR MORE"...thx again Harry...
Thanks John.
I love learning. Thank you for helping me learn.
Well explained Harry Thanks
Thanks Harry. Enjoyed all the information.
Excellent explanation! Thanks!
Another excellent video, Mr. Rogers. Thank you for this clarification.
Thank you I learned some new tricks.
Thank you Harry, I learned something.
Great follow-up!
Thanks James. I thought it would be easier to explain with a film as quite a few people were asking questions about this. Regards Harry
Thanks for the tips. Loved the build and thanks for sharing
Enjoyed!!
Really enjoyed the video, green wood chair making is going to be my next hobby. Thanks for posting. 👍
What a beautiful September day.
Thank you for the book suggestions. I really want to learn more about green woodworking.
It seems a much more sustainable way of working, and allows use of more local English woods that would otherwise be chipped or burned
Peter - if you have not already, do consider joining bodgers.org
@@harryrogers Thank you, I'll look into it.
I did see the bodgers on countryfile a couple of weeks ago, a combination of that and talking to a tree felling chap has really got me interested in it. I may be very wrong, but it seems that very few people are bridging the gap between old style green woodworking, and more modern furniture making.
With the current focus on climate change, and sustainability, it seems a logical step
Hi, so can we build other furnitures like a desk, bedside table... with green wood ? Using mortise and tenon technique?
This is the same principle when timber framing. I made a tool shop and used green pine timbers. My pegs were maple, dried in an oven. I left the pegs long inside the shop so I could hang things on them. There isn’t a chance you could pull one out.
hi Harry, it's me lily Aslett and we'll done. was grandad in it. graham Aslett
Hello Lily...grandad Graham gave us lots of advice, he was a very very special person who knew so much and always helped us out when we got stuck. He will go down as a legend in bodger life and is so very fondly remembered as a lovely person. Sarah and I will miss him popping in for lunch and flapjack. Thinking of you all Harry
excellent information! I will try and use the "hot sand" method when hanging axe and hammer handles etc, where you want the part of the handle inside the eye to be as dry as possible to avoid shrinking in dry conditions causing the handle to come loose. When you don't have access to a heat source, say a dry and warm room with central heating a woodstove or even the sun, I have a hard time drying the handle. But this method should be excellent for this task?
Yes it certainly works well.
Harry, Thank you for all your great contributions to our enjoyment and skill sets! I was delighted to see you all take on a green chair in a day right around the time the beloved author of "Make a Chair From a Tree" passed away, can't remember which preceded which, but a great tribute, intentional or not. I'm not sure if you were aware of her passing and her gender preferences, but I felt it important to share that John had transitioned to living as a female and took the name Jennie. R.I.P.
Yes a sad loss, Jennie was very inspirational with her book, as you say written when she was John, which I studied cover to cover pre internet. She along with the late Fred Lambert gave me the skills to make a Greenwood chair around 1984 that I completed in 10 hours using rotary planes! She contributed a lot and was widely respected, very much so by me.
Lost Art Press is apparently going to be republishing a new edition of Make A Chair From A Tree, which will be edited by her friend Peter Follansbee (and printed with the correct name, Jennie).
Can you use greenwood for tenons?
You need to dry them, hence the buckets of heated sand in the video.
Isn't this the chair alec steel is trying to make?
Haha yes I see what you mean.
I thoughf if the green wood shrinks the the hole will be bigger. Turns out it becomes smaller when it shrinks.
Yes and it actually goes oval. Jennie Alexander's book "How to make a chair from a tree" provides excellent research on this.
Can you please get into more detail?
I suggest you look atvthe two books I suggest as they are both very good..perhaps get Mike Abbot's book on your Christmas list!