Which drawknife?

[Mike Holbrook]

Michael, I will try a little glue on the Weatherby drawknife, should have thought of that.

I believe a 10" drawknife is what I have seen them use on those chair seat cuts. Probably as important is that the knife be very sharp though. I believe this is why they save a specific knife for just that work. Pete and Seth, Pete's cohort at the time, made some amazing cuts on chair seats with those longer slicing cuts. Both instructors encouraged everyone to make bolder, larger cuts even on spindles. It amazed me how they could do so much more in a small fraction of the cuts and time. I was a little freaked out when Pete sat at a horse and made a great spindle from a full blank in maybe 5 minuets when everyone in the class went through three or four multiple hour stages to produce lesser spindles. On the spindles Pete keep suggesting that I take longer deeper cuts. It was like I was playing an 18 hole golf course with a putter while they kept knocking out more precise cuts with a driver.