Bow elbow chair

The bow elbow chair is many names; sometimes called a captain’s bow and sometimes, a smoker’s bow. Or it could be a bow or even an elbow chair.

This one has a seat board made from an Ash tree that fell in a storm here a few years ago. The dark band in the seat board is the beginings of heart-rot in the tree. Quite inocuous and quite c ommon in native Ash trees.

A couple of years ago a young man enrolled on one of our two day country chair-making courses. He made a chair like this and shortly after, he started a New business in Clare as a chair-maker. 

Cheap chairs imported from Vietnam or Cambdia will always sell, but good hand-made chairs will always last. And last. And last.

There is some information about thye two day country chair-making course on our Website

Although this type of bow elbow chair is complicated, it is achievavble for the complete novice in only two days (sometimes with a little help)

Actually, in all the years, that people have been coming to learn about chair-making, nobody has every failed in the challenge (again, with a bit of help sometimes).