One thing Jennie Alexander knows is drawknives for chairmaking. After a brief stint at turned chairs many many years ago, JA switched to shaving chairs at the shaving horse. Like this:
I don’t know the date when the turned chairs were done, & shaved chairs begun, but it pre-dates the 1978 release of Make a Chair from a Tree. And all the students (me included in 1980) made them that way…
When Tom Lie-Nielsen was researching drawknives to make for sale, he got a hold of Alexander. Jennie sent some Witherby 8″ knives up to Maine for testing – and now look at the drawknives Lie-Nielsen makes. They are based on the Witherby drawknife courtesy of JA.
We have a small batch of drawknives for sale, these are not your ordinary antique clunkers, neglected in barns and garages for decades. These tools are in great shape. Tuned & sharpened for the most part…so go get the DVD on chairmaking, grab one of these knives and off you go….
the video is here: http://www.greenwoodworking.com/MACFATVideo
the drawknives are here: http://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/tools-for-sale-drawknives/ or the menu at the top of the blog
September 7, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Peter, If by any chance JA drawknife no.5 or 7 is still available, I’ll take it.
Thanks and hang in there, it’ll be over ( the selling) soon!
Michael
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