Post & Rung & Jennie Alexander
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For the next five days I'm in Maryland with four other friends to build a Jennie Alexander chair from Larry Barrett, a student and long-time friend of Alexander. Larry makes a chair that is 90 percent similar to Jennie's iconic chair from her book Make a Chair From a Tree. Some of the details of Larry's chair are a little different than Jennie's - especially the front rung that is […]The post Post & Rung & Jennie Alexander appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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Focus on Turning Design by Working From Larger Logs
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My turning ability is bound by my lathe - it has a maximum diameter capacity of 16. That means all my accessory tools, such as my hollowing system and 50cc 20 chainsaw, were acquired because they are designed around those size limitations. The largest bowls I make with these constraints are in the 14-15 range. For years I used fallen trees with a 20 diameter as raw material. By the […]The post Focus on Turning Design by Working From Larger Logs appeared first on Popular Woodworking Magazine.
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