Mark Gibney
01-16-2017, 11:49 AM
I just spent a week in San Diego learning how to make a 2-slat ladder back chair with Russ Filbeck.
It was a fantastic week, I can't say enough good about Russ and his wife Carol, and the whole chair making experience. Russ taught woodworking for over twenty years at Palomar College and you get all that experience in a one-on-one teaching process in his home workshop.
Russ has the beat up ladder back chair his family had back on the farm in Missouri when he was a kid, and it is interesting to see the changes in the way this type of chair is made nowadays, and there is also something right about learning chair making with someone who grew up with these actual chairs.
If any of you ever wanted to learn this process I highly recommend taking a class with Russ.
It was a fantastic week, I can't say enough good about Russ and his wife Carol, and the whole chair making experience. Russ taught woodworking for over twenty years at Palomar College and you get all that experience in a one-on-one teaching process in his home workshop.
Russ has the beat up ladder back chair his family had back on the farm in Missouri when he was a kid, and it is interesting to see the changes in the way this type of chair is made nowadays, and there is also something right about learning chair making with someone who grew up with these actual chairs.
If any of you ever wanted to learn this process I highly recommend taking a class with Russ.