Enduring Beauty, Made From the Woods
Of The Pacific Northwest

John Vaught, craftsman and owner of Northwest Windsor Chairs,
has devoted much of his life to woodworking, and now
specializes in the hand-crafting of Windsor Chairs.

Spindle Making / Seat Shaping  / Back Bending

From a collection of northwestern woods traditional chair patterns
are used to craft chairs of delicate strength and enduring beauty.

Oregon White Oak, Oregon Ash, and Oregon Maple are used
to complement hand shaped seats made from Ponderosa Pine
or California Sugar Pine. Green hardwoods are shaped into
spindles, bows and backs.  All bent parts are steam-bent from
solid wood.  Our chairs are constructed using mortise and
tapered tenon, wedged joints.  The wedges lock the joint in place 
expanding the hardwood ends as they are driven home to refusal.

The greatest majority of original Windsor chairs were 
painted.  The paint of that day was lead based,
no longer in production for health reasons. 

We paint our chairs using environmentally safe, non-toxic milk paint 
from "Old Fashioned Milk Paint Company" (www.milkpaint.com).  
Milk paint is composed of milk protein, lime, clay and earth 
pigment such as lampblack, ochre, etc.  If you would like 
to see some of our custom colors, please contact us at
 info@northwestwindsorchairs.com or call (541) 273-6888.

We obtain a warm glow, touch sensitive finish on our chairs
by hand rubbing the painted surface and sealing it with Varnish
Oil from "Tried and True" (http://www.triedandtruewoodfinish.com).
 

Heirlooms To Cherish With Use
Sit in one of these chairs from America's past 
and comfortably gaze into the future knowing the 
life of our chairs can be measured in generations.