Tellman Hill Farm Handmade Chairs
When the weather turns cold and farm work slows down, I (Doug) make wooden chairs. Each chair starts with selecting and cutting trees on our farm.
I build chairs one at at time, using traditional construction methods including splitting parts from logs, steam bending, and hand-shaping. All chairs are made 100% from wood, with no metal fasteners. Chairs made in this way have lasted hundreds of years.
Splitting out parts by hand maintains the wood fibers, allowing parts to be thinner, lighter, more flexible, and stronger than machine-made wooden chairs. They also have handmade details -- I leave many surfaces as they are from the hand tools that shaped them, this provides textures and facets that attract the eye and hand.
The amount of work for each chair is significant, with most chairs taking about a week to complete from start to finish, and some taking longer.
I build chairs one at at time, using traditional construction methods including splitting parts from logs, steam bending, and hand-shaping. All chairs are made 100% from wood, with no metal fasteners. Chairs made in this way have lasted hundreds of years.
Splitting out parts by hand maintains the wood fibers, allowing parts to be thinner, lighter, more flexible, and stronger than machine-made wooden chairs. They also have handmade details -- I leave many surfaces as they are from the hand tools that shaped them, this provides textures and facets that attract the eye and hand.
The amount of work for each chair is significant, with most chairs taking about a week to complete from start to finish, and some taking longer.