Turned and Tapered
The world of fine furniture making can be a mysterious land where precisely cut joinery meets carefully selected timbers. It can be world that requires a well equipped workshop filled with hand tools and machines. But take a step back and consider the age old craft of the bodger, an itinerant craftsman who made chairs on-site in the forest using a pole lathe to fashion legs and spindles from freshly felled wood. Their work now constitutes some of the finest examples of raw and enduring seating, with its own design aesthetic.
The modern lathe has not changed much from its predecessor, other than moving from foot power to electrically driven motors, but along with a drill press, a hand held drill, and some hand tools, some forms of furniture, such as this stool can be made in a home workshop.
Careful selection of timber,
