Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Seven-step

Walnut Chairs seem to be some of the most popular chairs, but when they dry out, the rails should be reinforced with screws....gluing will not solve the problem, the wood will find another place to split.

Happy Birthday John Jan.24, 1949

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther

Sometimes it's not about the chair........

"Winter's Quiet" ........the second basket I've done after 30 years of chair repair and caning! I used just about everything in the shop including the 4-point white tail antler. Since I have a pile of sheds and kills, I might try and put one of these together every now and then. This is an "art" basket, (more decoration than basket) but would serve nicely as a centerpiece or table scape. It's about 10" by 14" $160

I love a set of "matching chairs" with hand drilled holes so nothing matches.....

Done in fine-fine select cane.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

Little White Rocker continued.......

Now that the Christmas rush is over I finished that white rocker with 6mm binder cane in the back. Sold this rocker almost immediately and haven't found a project of my own yet so it's on to the customers!

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.