text: Build_windsor_chair
  Steaming parts
  Workshop Course Build a Windsor Chair
  Advanced Windsor Chair
  Instructor: Mario Rodriguez
  9:00 am - 4:00 pm (day)
  The Windsor chair form has captivated woodworkers for over 300 years. It is economical, graceful, exuberant, & comfortable. Rooted in tradition, it offers exciting design possibilities.
  In this workshop, participants will spend the first part of the workshop (5 consecutive days) carving, steambending, and turning, all the parts needed for a comb-back Windsor arm chair. Employing a combination of machine and traditional hand tool techniques designed to facilitate the learning experience and maximize student efforts, students produce all the parts for their own chair. At the end of the week, students go home to sand, gauge, and embellish their chair parts.
  They return, several weeks later, for part two of the workshop: to fit, to assemble, and to decorate their chairs. There's no other woodworking experience comparable to building a traditional Windsor chair.
  Mario Rodriguez has been building Windsors for over 20 years and his chairs have appeared in many publications including Fine Woodworking Design Book 2, Country Living, House Beautiful, Countryside, McCalls, and others.