dining room chair slip seat

[gene]

I had a customer pick up their 12 set of Hendradon dining room chairs today. All with slip seats. Plus a somewhat matching settee that also had a slip seat.

I came across this video of the Woodright Shop and his guest is showing how they did slip seats in the 1800's.

He said 1 slip seat would take him about 4 hours. I assumed that this included making the wood frame. And I would think that someone working in a furniture shop who was making slip seats all day long, every day, would be even faster.

Anyway, I found this very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVf2-2ytN8c

gene

[SteveA]

The contrasting video of an assembly line person knocking out those seats would make Roy cringe.  Innovation can make it easier but not always better. The salt becomes tasteless  -

SA