- Gary Phillips spoke to the club on the craftmenship in making a Windsor Chair.
- What is a Windsor Chair?
- History - also known as a 'stick' chair from Welsh and Irish descent
- First noted as a garden chair
- The name Windsor is derived from the market town of Windsor in London where they were sent to be sent out
- Many different patterns both modern and traditional
- Gary went to Molong to a Windsor Chair making workshop for ten days
- Very physically demanding work
- Traditional workmanship skills utilised - no modern machinery
- Gary played an informative video demonstrating the different techniques utilised to form the chairs
- He also demonstrated the tools required for each part of the process (froe, pole lathe, auger, carving axe)
- Utilise sight lines to get the angles of the chair legs (splay & rake)
- Gary hand made all the tool handles as they do not ship them from UK with the tool heads
