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Award-winning designer and builder Jeff Miller shows how key design elements apply to all chairs. He provides a number of useful jig designs to simplify construction. The book includes plans for seven chair projects: dowel, right-angle, child's ladderback, slat-back, neo-classical, cafe style and captain's chairs. 136 photos. 85 drawings.

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Award-winning designer and builder Jeff Miller shows how key design elements apply to all chairs. He provides a number of useful jig designs to simplify construction. The book includes plans for seven chair projects: dowel, right-angle, child's ladderback, slat-back, neo-classical, cafe style and captain's chairs. 136 photos. 85 drawings.

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Chair design poses three fundamental challenges: making the chair comfortable, durable, and good looking (which has a wide range of meanings and implications). Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great deal at twice the price!!!!, Aug 28 2000

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Bo Todd (Red Deer, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chairmaking & Design (Paperback)

Finally...a book written about how to build something, for people that don't know how to build it!!! Awsome!!! Takes the fear out of building chairs...well NOT all the fear, but at least most of it.

This is a must have book for first time chair builders!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Chairmaking, Nov 26 2011

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Alex - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chairmaking & Design (Paperback)

I bought this book about eight months ago when I needed some chairs for the living room. I ended up making two of the chairs in the book using some basic tools like a drill and a jigsaw. The instructions were clear and the chairs have held up well so far. The chair designs that were used are more on a formal side, better suited for sitting at a dining table. There is also some instruction on making your own designs for chairs as well as variety of examples. Overall a great addition to my woodworking library.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Resource for Chairmaking, Dec 24 2008

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Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur "Rocky Mountain E... (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
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I am now in the process of completing my 15th chair. I used the designs from this book with a great deal of success for the last nine. The author gives some insightful details I hadn't thought of before I got this book. The designs are fairly straight forward and progress from easy to harder chairs. I have found that the harder chairs certainly take some practice before trying to tackle them. A couple of things I would have liked to see would have been:
1. A cut list. No cut list or take off list is provided for the designs which means you have to look at each piece, count them up, and get their measurements;
2. A board foot total. Before beginning a chair or set of chairs, I always cost it out based on the materials I am going to use. Without a cut list this takes time, but then I needed to know how much wood to order and how much to budget for each chair.
3. Variations in seats. One area lacking was seats. There are several designs, but I am working with solid wood seats and most of the ones shown are cloth or woven inset seats. This doesn't help in educating me in dishing out of the seats or attaching them or issues with wood movement.
4. Wood bending. There needs to be more info on wood bending and curved parts for chairs. I found out the hard way that the exotic woods I was using wouldn't bend and couldn't be laminated in thin strips to bend it. Perhaps I should have used the encyclopedia of wood first (due to complaints on the first chair from my wife, I needed curved pieces vice straight ones, and I already had the wood purchased and had it sent to our remote location).

If you want to make a decent basic chair or are looking for a few ideas for chairs (I modified some of them), then this book will work for you. One thing I did like was the pictures of unusual chairs in the photo gallery.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource and reference for personal projects
I attended my first workshop (on making tables) at Jeff Miller's studio in the summer of 2003. I purchased this book shortly after completing the class. Read more

Published on Mar 3 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty much all you could ask
This is really an excellent book for a woodworker seeking guidance with the particular challenges of chairbuilding. Read more

Published on Nov 12 2003