A Faster Way to Assemble a Roorkee
Roorkee chairs are great fun to show customers – until they ask me to take it apart and put it back together for them. For the first year or so,...
Different Kinds of Roorkhee Chairs
Since building my first run of Roorkhee chairs for the October 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking, I’ve been able to explore many of the variants of this nifty design, from...
Roorkhee Chair Design Document
Whether you know it or not, you’ve probably seen a Roorkhee chair (or its children) at some point in your life. The Roorkhee chair was supposedly invented at the end...
Roorkhee Details to Avoid Disaster
Roorkhee chairs are tough and lightweight – they have to be in order go to war or on safari. To make your chairs as durable and lightweight as possible, here...
Assemble a Roorkhee Chair
Building a Roorkhee chair is one thing. Assembling it without looking like a lowly private is quite another. In the October 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, I showed you...
Turn a Roorkhee Leg with One Tool
I am the last person in the world who should teach wood turning. I stink at it. I’m slow. I don’t do it enough to become proficient at it. But...
