Thread: A Double Bow Windsor Chair

Oh dear Peter you used two P words. It'll be pistols for two if you're not careful.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by Peter36

One solution to the question ' Should screw heads be aligned " would be to use holey head posidrive screws and the little plastic plug that covers the head of the screw

Those plastic plugs are butt ugly, though in my book, they would be preferable to aligned slotted screws.

Fig. 1. The colour of envy.

A great number of eighteenth-century Windsor chairs were painted green; known as 'forest' chairs. The hues of green these chairs were painted varied from marine grey-greens to leafy yellow-greens though due to the composition of the paints, many chairs would now be unrecognisable to their makers, having darkened considerably; or indeed, been subsequently darkly varnished.

Many people would be unaware their Windsors were ever painted at all as some paints, light on binders, tended to be somewhat fugitive. Other chairs may have latterly succumbed to chemical or mechanical stripping at the hands of misguided restorers or during the stripped-pine years of the sixties and seventies.

Like discovering fragments of centuries-old paint behind layers of wallpaper and scrim during a house renovation, espying a hint of green paint masked by layers of varnish and wax on an eighteenth-century Windsor chair is testament to its age and offers a glimpse into its early existence.

The fugacious green paint in fig. 1 was intended both to confront and to demonstrate how some early forest chairs might have appeared when newly painted. Paint remnants like those in figs. 2 and 3 are often the only visible indication that a chair was ever painted.

Fig. 2. Residual paint on front of saddle.

Fig. 3. Paint trapped in timber's figure.

Fig. 4. Wellard displaying the usual disdain for my efforts.

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Fig. 1. The colour of envy.

A great number of eighteenth-century Windsor chairs were painted green; known as 'forest' chairs. The hues of green these chairs were painted varied from marine grey-greens to leafy yellow-greens though due to the composition of the paints, many chairs would now be unrecognisable to their makers, having darkened considerably; or indeed, been subsequently darkly varnished.

Many people would be unaware their Windsors were ever painted at all as some paints, light on binders, tended to be somewhat fugitive. Other chairs may have latterly succumbed to chemical or mechanical stripping at the hands of misguided restorers or during the stripped-pine years of the sixties and seventies.

Like discovering fragments of centuries-old paint behind layers of wallpaper and scrim during a house renovation, espying a hint of green paint masked by layers of varnish and wax on an eighteenth-century Windsor chair is testament to its age and offers a glimpse into its early existence.

The fugacious green paint in fig. 1 was intended both to confront and to demonstrate how some early forest chairs might have appeared when newly painted. Paint remnants like those in figs. 2 and 3 are often the only visible indication that a chair was ever painted.

Fig. 2. Residual paint on front of saddle.

Fig. 3. Paint trapped in timber's figure.

Fig. 4. Wellard displaying the usual disdain for my efforts.

Mrs Phil is impressed as am I

Beautiful though I was taken aback when I saw the green. Thank god it was fugacious. It reminds me of the Greeks. The starkly white statues we see today are nothing like the ones they saw - painted clothes and eyes.
cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by Woodwould

Fig. 1. The colour of envy.

A great number of eighteenth-century Windsor chairs were painted green; known as 'forest' chairs. The hues of green these chairs were painted varied from marine grey-greens to leafy yellow-greens though due to the composition of the paints, many chairs would now be unrecognisable to their makers, having darkened considerably; or indeed, been subsequently darkly varnished.

Many people would be unaware their Windsors were ever painted at all as some paints, light on binders, tended to be somewhat fugitive. Other chairs may have latterly succumbed to chemical or mechanical stripping at the hands of misguided restorers or during the stripped-pine years of the sixties and seventies.

Like discovering fragments of centuries-old paint behind layers of wallpaper and scrim during a house renovation, espying a hint of green paint masked by layers of varnish and wax on an eighteenth-century Windsor chair is testament to its age and offers a glimpse into its early existence.

The fugacious green paint in fig. 1 was intended both to confront and to demonstrate how some early forest chairs might have appeared when newly painted. Paint remnants like those in figs. 2 and 3 are often the only visible indication that a chair was ever painted.

Fig. 2. Residual paint on front of saddle.

Fig. 3. Paint trapped in timber's figure.

Fig. 4. Wellard displaying the usual disdain for my efforts.

If Wellard was truly disdainful he would have


Was the green removed by sanding and then the chair oiled and waxed?

Originally Posted by jimbur

Beautiful though I was taken aback when I saw the green. Thank god it was fugacious. It reminds me of the Greeks. The starkly white statues we see today are nothing like the ones they saw - painted clothes and eyes.
cheers,
Jim

Yes I had an OMG moment too but relaxed when I saw the finished chair.

Originally Posted by Peter36

Was the green removed by sanding and then the chair oiled and waxed?

Basically yes, though the paint was simply wiped off, not sanded off.

So?? Wots wrong with a lime green windsor chair??


'Do me one as a flat pack WW and I will gladly assemble it and paint, and then place it on my soon to be finished deck!

Lovely. The effect is quite interesting to produce in one piece.

what an incredible piece of work WoodWould, I always enjoy reading your threads and admiring the outstanding quality of your work

What happend to wouldwood, does he still post projects here?

I have noticed he still posts on his blog but not here anymore.


joez