I thought it would be a good way to demonstrate the quality of our blades by making a Windsor Chair Shield seat. This is one for a continuous arm so it requires the full gamut of tools. It just happened the white pine two by tens I'd glued up were really knotty - some of it in very inconvenient spots.

After bandsawing the blank the first tool is the drawknife:

The idea is to remove as much waste wood as possible with the drawknife (be careful not to lift out too big a chip and split the seat at the edge) but I had the spokeshaves out earlier than usual because of the knots:

Some of the best performance by our razor cut blades is seen when cutting end grain. Here the tool must be turned around and pulled because of change in grain direction. This is the sort of task only a spokeshave can do well and a wooden shave, with the blade set at a low angle, does best.

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