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Brian Bogg's Chairmaker Series

...with Brian Boggs

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Hickory Bark From Tree To Chair: Harvesting & Weaving Hickory Bark Seats

Brian Boggs is famous for his beautifully crafted chairs, modern interpretations of traditional Appalachian styles. His favorite seat material is woven hickory bark. Harvesting hickory bark, an extraordiarily strong material, is a lost art. In the DVD, Brian shows you how he has re-invented ways to prepare bark and demonstrates weaving hickory bark seats.

(about 48 minutes)

Drawknives, Spokeshaves And Travishers: A Chairmaker's Tool Kit

Brian Bogg's years of experience building the chairs he is famous for has given him a unique insight into design and use of drawknives, spokeshaves and travishers. He has worked with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks to develop new interpretations of these tools for today's woodworkers. In this new DVD, Brian demonstrates how to use a shave horse effectively for shaping chair parts, including rough shaping with a drawknife, shaping and smoothing with spokeshaves and razor shaves, and hollowing a seat with a travisher. He also covers how to sharpen the unique flat and curved blades of these tools.

(about 53 minutes)

This video was added to our catalog on January 01, 2000 in Woodworking::Furniture Making and Woodworking::Shop Tools.

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