Comb-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 making the upper frame of the chair, the comb is steam bent, then carved into shaped, ten spindles are steam bent and shaped, the back posts are hand carved and shaped finishing with a turned pattern of a ring, ball, concave, ring and swell.

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

Straight grained and quickly grown Ash is used in making all the under parts of this chair, the four legs and have a pattern of ring, ball, ring with a single ring at lower end of the legs, the short back stretchers have a ball and tapered swell fitted to the crinoline stretcher, which is fixes into the back legs. All patterned turned parts are made on a Bobbin-Bow Lathe.

Two coats of finishing oil, two applications of high quality wax polish achieve the very deep lustre finish.

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