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Chairmaking Process-Shaping the spindles |
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Shaping spindles with a drawknife. |
Shaping & smoothing spindles with a spokeshave |
| Shaping the spindles.
The spindles are shaped with a drawknife and spokeshave to
the size desired. The spindles of most handmade Windsor chairs vary
slightly in size and shape because they are shaped using hand tools. Some
chairmakers turn the spindles on a lathe. Whether a spindle is shaped by
hand or turned on a lathe is less important than whether the wood from which
it is shaped was sawn or riven. Riven wood gives the straightness of grain
that ensures strength.
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