Despite the interest in Philip Clissett over the years, his workshop and tools have been lost. Luckily, we have a couple of photographs taken in the early 20th century, and some memories of his methods collected many years after his death. I've made an attempt to bring all this together in one place in the lastest part of the Clissett biography.
Some of the recorded memories are contradictory, so I've had a go at sorting them out as far as possible. In the end, although you couldn't build a chair based on my text, there may be something there of interest to the modern chairmaker - and it's the nearest thing so far to a historical record of what Clissett actually did.
You can download this new section on the workshop and working methods from the biography page.
As usual, any comments welcome.
Some of the recorded memories are contradictory, so I've had a go at sorting them out as far as possible. In the end, although you couldn't build a chair based on my text, there may be something there of interest to the modern chairmaker - and it's the nearest thing so far to a historical record of what Clissett actually did.
You can download this new section on the workshop and working methods from the biography page.
As usual, any comments welcome.
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