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The Irish stick chair is moving along. Putting the details aside, the base is nothing more than some sticks mortised into a plank. Not overly complex stuff, although it took some creativity to deal with the stock at times. As you can see in the picture below, not all of the bolts for the legs maintained a consistent thickness along their entire length. This limited how much machining I could do safely, so most of the work from here on out was done by hand.
I haven't had much time to post over the past couple of months but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. The flood gates will open once I find some time to document what I've been working on. After a mad dash to finish the first of four plant stands before Christmas (a story for another day), I'm turning my attention back to the Irish Stick Chair.
I haven't quite caught the "chair bug" yet, but the more I venture into chairmaking—Windsor and stick chairs in particular—the more intrigued I become. For woodworkers, such as myself, with a background almost exclusively in casework type furniture, chairmaking can seem like an entirely different discipline. Proficiency using hand tools is a transferable skill, but it seems like that's about it.
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