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Don McNutt Demonstrationby Fred HolderAt the January 10. 2010 meeting of the SeattleChapter of AAW, Don McNutt the newly elected presidentof the club gave a demonstration and talk on makingchairs like the one shown in Figure 1.Figure 2. Don McNutt holding up the tool that henormally uses to make the small spindles for thechairs.Don noted that these thin spindles can be turned ona lathe and then prepared to demonstrate this process asshown in Figure 3. This is a fairly long and thin spindlethat is better made by some other method.Figure 1. One of Don McNutt’s chairs.Don noted that very little of the pieces in the chairare turned on the lathe; for example, the thin spindles,which are fairly difficult to turn on a lathe are normallymade with a hand held tool which sizes them to theparticular size. As the tool which Don is holding in hishand in Figure 2 is rotated it sizes the spindle to theproper size. This is normally done off of the lathe.Figure 3. Don McNutt beginning to turn a longthin spindle.Don then showed us a number of tools used in themaking of the chairs. The tool shown in Figure 4 is atool to make the tapered hole in the seat of the chair toaccept a tapered tenon on the small spindles used in thearms and back of the chair.Page 30 More Woodturning June 2010