| This blog is written by lethentymill | 18 entries so far |
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Antique Wooden Planes and the Furniture Maker #2: Tuning Up An Old Wooden Smoothing Plane
Allan Fyfe of Lethenty Mill Furniture demonstrates how to use a smoothing plane that he has just ...
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Antique Wooden Planes and the Furniture Maker #1: How to Handle a Moulding Plane
Judging by the damage that appears on old wooden planes, patience soon runs out when we handle th...
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The Non-Electric Chair #16: Enthroned at Last
OK, it had to be sanded and damped and sanded again before it was ready for oiling, and it ha...
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The Non-Electric Chair #15: Making the Chair (Fitting the Seat and Arms)
I closed the shed in October last year and took the toolbox inside as I had no intention of w...
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The Non-Electric Chair #14: Making the Chair (The back frame gets glued up and the chair comes together)
There are some jobs that must be done as you go along; they will be very difficult to do once ...
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The Non-Electric Chair #13: Making the Chair (Front Frame)
I wish I knew more about mushrooms and toadstools; Inkcaps appear from time to time, and rubbe...
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The Non-Electric Chair #12: Breaking out the Beech - Part 2
I have to “rough cut” the curved pieces of the chair now and, to come back to the jig-saw ques...
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The Non-Electric Chair #11: Breaking out the Beech (part 1)
The timber is still moist to the touch and heavy, probably about 28% moisture, but it will be ...
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The Non-Electric Chair #10: Waiting for Beech To Dry
Leaving the tool chest for a moment; we go back a few years to the Domesday Book and 1086 and ...
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The Non-Electric Chair #9: The Tool Chest (part 2)
You can’t do a project like this without being impressed by the beauty and brevity of the name...
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The Non-Electric Chair #8: The Toolchest (Part 1)
“Maybe he was a pattern maker”. Alexander, my oldest son, is an engineer and was looking at th...
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The Non-Electric Chair #7: The Blue Shed
In some ways I would be proud to have “Bodger” on my CV. The gentlemen who made chair spindle...
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The Non-Electric Chair #6: Cleaving Wood (Part 2)
In the tool chest I have a collection of antique tools which is comprehensive enough for me t...
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The Non-Electric Chair #5: Cleaving Wood (part 1)
So far the tree has been felled and the trunk has been cut into suitable sections. The chair I am...
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The Non-Electric Chair #4: In Which We Get Down To Work
You may be wondering when I am going to stop daydreaming and get on with making a chair. The sho...
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The Non-Electric Chair #3: The Island
The “Island” is the land that accompanies Lethenty Mill. It stretches from its widest part ...
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The Non-Electric Chair #2: My hoped-for end result
I thought it would be interesting for other Lumberjocks to see what it is that I am attempting to...
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The Non-Electric Chair #1: A daydream, a tool chest and a blue shed
I set myself the project of making a chair from a tree without the use of electricity or machine ...
