Free Plans & Patterns: 7-stick Comb-back Chair

The chair shown above is the typical comb-back design we build in chair classes here at Lost Art Press. It’s a design that evolved during the last five years until September 2023, when I made a set of finished patterns.

Since then, I’ve built this chair more than 20 times using these patterns and can say that this design is complete. Each time I make it, I vary the decorative details on the comb, shoe and hands. But the chair’s angles, the stance and the way it sits make me (and I rarely write this) not unhappy.

We’ll continue to make this chair in class, but I want to turn my eye to an 11-stick comb-back design that I’ve been thinking about in the shower (middle age is weird, I tell you).

So this entry is me handing over the plans for the seven-stick comb-back to everyone out there. You are welcome to make this chair for yourself or for sale. You …