Craftisian Blogs

Haven’t had time for writing, so this is a big catch-up. I had a piece of juniper which had a crotch with a large bark inclusion. I looked at it a...

I used a 3/8" radius round over bit to shape the stretchers.  To avoid tear-out where cutting (nearly) end grain in some areas, I made multiple pas...

I've been kicking around ideas on how to fasten the chair shell to the stretchers, and I think I have the front mounting worked out.   The shell do...

For final fitting of the chair shell to the back stretcher, I spent some time sanding-down the rough fiberglass in that area.  Eventually, the enti...

[IMG_3939.png]    Boys and Girls,   Yazall know I like to spin a yarn [Spin a Yarn.png] so let me tell you about the chilling tale of my Samsung fr...

I wonder if I was the only one that got the news this morning that Craftisian was expired. I could not get to the sign on page and it said it was  ...

   It has been a long time... Feeling good lately Health-wise, after a few bumps in the road and Life has kept me very busy! Experiencing a new-fou...

Several months ago an old friend of mine stumbled upon the idea that he would like an Alphorn so he asked me if I would be interested in making one...

The back stretcher will be rotated 39 degrees (roughly) from vertical to allow it to be joined at the thick part of the leg and will be wide enough...

I go to Hobby Lobby and purchase a couple of yards of the thinnest batting material they have.  It appears to be about 1/8." I cut it to the appr...

I'll be using a pair of Dominos at each end of the stretcher to join the stretcher to the leg assemblies.  With the stretcher clamped in position, ...

To me, a chair stretcher doesn't seem like something that ought to require a lot of design work, but I managed to spend 3 days trying to work out s...