Ladderback chairs a la Langsner
Dave Mount
>This is nothing original, as these chairs were made verbatim from Drew Langsner's "Chairmaker's Workshop" book, but I thought I'd post them as encouragement to others who are on the fence to take the plunge and make some of these chairs. While I consider myself a fairly experienced woodworker (though much of it powered), this project represented a bunch of firsts -- first chair, first experience riving green wood, first steambending, first shaping round stock by hand, first seat weaving. The plug here is that with no instruction save Langsner's book, I was able to turn out some chairs that I'm pretty happy with. The instructions in his book are about as good as any I can imagine, and doing these ladderbacks is a great way to start this type of work.
So, if you're thinking about it, jump in!
Dave
