Why buy handmade chairs?
Because they last longer, and are better looking. In years to come, if you look after them, your handmade chairs will become heirlooms. Hand made chairs can be made of thinner selected materials thus improving appearance, and GAINING strength and flexibility due to the distribution of stresses. Timber can be carefully selected for moisture content and grain pattern. Seats can be deeply sculpted to improve comfort. Hand made chairs of a type may look identical at first sight but slight differences will gradually become apparent to delight the eye. Your hand made chairs will always be unique. There are many perfectly satisfactory machine made mass produced chairs available, and due to the way they are made they are also likely to be cheaper. To stand up to the additional stresses of machine manufacture, components tend to be made of thicker section timber, and machine lathe turned components are generally less crisp and detailed. Seat sculpting tends to be less pronounced. Generally all
