It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

A bedroom rocker in 5MM Binder Cane......actually using leftover odds and ends from the summer caning season. It's pretty difficult to sell some these "orphans" for the amount of work and cane in them, but it's pretty wasteful to throw the chair and cane away. Wait for a while and I'll post the finish product.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.
Tommy Lasorda

Five sisters and a cousin

The neat thing about old chairs (or old anything) can be assembling enough like chairs to have a dinner party. Sometimes just using what you have will do. Six chairs, done in fine-fine cane in the seven-step method, 5 chairs "match" plus 1 "cousin".

Check out this customer's website! www.sterlingupholsteryco.com

Just a pretty pair of purple porch perches!

Porch Cane Single

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A nice little single in 6MM herringbone. Did quite a few of these instead of using fibre rush or splints. They are used outside on a dock.

I like weaving my filler strands early, so I'm not fighting them later.

Paper Splint bedroom rocker

Starts with the basic frame

This could have been a number of seats, fibre rush, shaker tape binder cane, or a regular splint.......The paper gives it a little color without a stain, but is not weather-proof.

"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday." ~Author Unknown

The Country Settee

This is the finished gem. It didn't take me this long to complete, I just haven't posted in a while. All done, it took a little more than 6 hours.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein

Another Country Settee

Another settee that was originally a single rope bed. A little modification with the lathe and some plugs turned useless and broken to useful and country. I sold it withe a rope seat in it complete with pins and rope but the new owner requested a woven splint seat. I'll admit, I seriously under-estimated this project thinking I only needed three bundles of splint.....you're looking at all three installed. This will take at least another 1 1/2 - 2 bundles. In thirty years of weaving, this is probably only the fourth or fifth I've done....three this year alone!

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. W. C. Fields

Finally at last.....5mm porch cane and a lot of it! I might have to re-think on how to price this type of work. This is done in a two-over weave and took all of eight hours....if it had been herringbone weaving probably 12-14 hours. Two rolls of cane at $19.75 each. All my cane comes from H. H. Perkins...used them for as long as I can remember, 20 yrs. at least.

www.hhperkins.com

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. Louis Armstrong
(Happy Birthday Louis! Aug. 4, 1901)

This is taking me forever............Maybe it's the sunglasses.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz

This chair came to me with a natural rush seat and got a 5/32" fibre seat replacement. The cool thing about this chair was that it originally took a hand-caned seat and had been craftily shaven to accept the rush. I did a double take when I saw this, but it speaks to someones ingenuity and patience.......this is a hard maple chair! Why?, I don't know, but cool.

Just a little rushing in 5/32 fibre rush.......cool ladderback.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did. Jimmy Durante

I'll have to get the finished photo and add it later. This project chair came out better than expected for a chair literally "falling apart at the seams". It now graces a porch here in Montrose. Wicker repair is very tedious and I don't do enough of it.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. Will Rogers

This was a great project.......An early 6 1/2 foot settee done in 5/32 fibre rush.....it was oringinally done in cat-tail but that was cost-prohibitive to the customer. I have two more settee types lined up and will picture them directly.

Cottage chairs...They're a really neat set.....The owner wanted them re-done in paper splint, but the European reed is a nice alternative.....a little more water-proof, a little more sturdy and will take paint a lot better.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -Winston Churchill

Fibre-rush was designed to take the place of natural cat-tail or bull-rush seats. Very durable and can be finished many ways, I prefer two coats of Amber Shellac. A very petite mahagoney sidechair in 4/32" and the more common rustic ladder back in 5/32".