1. A Walnut Windsor Chair – Introduction
2. The Log
3. Transport
4. Rough Lumber
5. Seat Blanks
6. Legs
7. Arm Posts and Tapered Holes
8. Carve the Seat
9. Turn the Undercarriage
10. Assembling the Seat and Undercarriage
11. Spindles
12. Arms
13. Assembling the Spindles and Arms
14. Crest Version 1 — The Form Bent Laminated Crest
15. Crest Version 2 — The Steam Bent Crest
16. Final Assembly
17. Detailing
18. Finishing a Walnut Windsor Chair
19. Final Notes

Entry 3

Transport  –  12/28/2007

The wood was in Michigan and I live in New York.  The initial batch was transported in the back of my station wagon.

The maximum length that I can fit in the back of my car is just over five feet.  The boards from the trunk were 12 feet long.  Bill and I selected some 2 in thick (8/4) and some 1 inch thick (actually, about 5/4) boards.  I crosscut them to maximize the yield of wood appropriate for chairs and other furniture that I make.  We put about 110 board feet into the back of the car.  Back home in East Amherst, I stacked the wood in my shop (with stickers between boards for air circulation).  The boards were down to 14 to 25 percent moisture content at that point.  (June, 2006)

People sometimes ask why I drive a station wagon.  The answer is at right.