Bow Back Windsor Side Chair in Yew, Elm and Ash.

Yew is not a wood commonly used in Windsor chairs, but by including some Yew it makes a higher quality Windsor chair. Yew ‘thinnings’ – trimmed off yew trees, are used in the side chair for the bow and the spindles.

The bow is steam bent to shape and then hand carved, it also has a decorative scribed edge, the eight elliptical back spindles for this chair are made from a timber that is straight grained, turned and steam bent to give a lower lumber comfortable support.

The seat for the chair is made from a 2 inch thick solid piece of Elm, shaped for comfort, with a decorative scribed line round the edge of the seat, it also has a small front pommel.

Straight grained and quickly grown Ash used for make the rest of the chair, four legs, two small stretchers and a crinoline stretcher.

The four legs have a pattern of four rings, ball and three rings, with a single ring at the lower end of the legs, the short back stretchers have a ball and tapered swell, which is fitted into the Crinoline stretcher then into the back legs.

All patterned turned parts in this chair are made on a Bobbin-Bow Lathe.

With two coats of finishing oil and two applications of high quality wax polish achieves the very deep lustre finish.

Every chair comes with a photographic album of how a Windsor chair is made.