Nice example showing the smoked reed. It looks really nice. For those like me who cannot get hickory bark due to costs, this looks like a good alternative. Is that 5/8" or 3/4"?
Thanks! I use 5/8” on side chairs and 3/4” on arm chairs. If your arm chairs aren’t much bigger than your sides, I think 5/8” would work fine for both.
I see a highly specialized tool in there...resembling a butter knife, lol. Were you stapling the strips together? Just out of curiosity, why staple instead of notching and splicing them together? Just quicker?
Yeah, that’s a custom ground butter knife. No sharp edges and a wide, flat tip. I’m using galvanized wire to hold the strips together. They either get covered up or cut and removed after the reed dries. Everything is held together by friction. You just need to make sure there’s a good deal of overlap when you add a new strand.
Nice example showing the smoked reed. It looks really nice. For those like me who cannot get hickory bark due to costs, this looks like a good alternative. Is that 5/8" or 3/4"?
Thanks! I use 5/8” on side chairs and 3/4” on arm chairs. If your arm chairs aren’t much bigger than your sides, I think 5/8” would work fine for both.
I see a highly specialized tool in there...resembling a butter knife, lol. Were you stapling the strips together? Just out of curiosity, why staple instead of notching and splicing them together? Just quicker?
Yeah, that’s a custom ground butter knife. No sharp edges and a wide, flat tip.
I’m using galvanized wire to hold the strips together. They either get covered up or cut and removed after the reed dries. Everything is held together by friction. You just need to make sure there’s a good deal of overlap when you add a new strand.