Good caning description, and Ok on doing wicker. I have often thought about learning something about doing this, I just never have learned it. Talk later. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: Era Trice To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning and repairing chairs
Chair Caning: There are seven stages. Stage One: Using wooden pegs to keep cane tight, loop cane from back to front of chair Stage Two: Loop cane from left to right or from right to left of chair-over stage one Stage Three: Weave from side to front -over stage two and under stage one Stage four: Loop cane from back to front-over stages one, two and three. Stage five: Weave from left to right or right-over stage four and under stages one, two and three Stage six: Weave from front to side or side to back under stages two, five and three Stage Seven: Binding: Weave a piece of cane on top to cover the holes around the chair I was in the wicker restoration business for twenty five years. I learned chair caning at the Arkansas school for the blind. I don't cane anymore. Era trice ----- Original Message ----- From: Don To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:53 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning and repairing chairs Their is more than one way to cane a chair. if we call the strans front, to back the ones, yeah, the way I learned, the twos, side to side, all go over the ones, and the 3's from front to back again, go over all the one's, and twos. again, and then the fours from side to side weave over the ones and under the threes, are how ever you want to start the weave. I'll let some one else explain the fives, and sixes, they get in to strange angles, from time to time, that you got to have a feel for. and in my case, this came from experience. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: NLG To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] caning and repairing chairs Where is a good place to learn the art of caneing? I see some basic instruction in my cursory search on the subject but didn't completely understand it. For instance, after you run the cane from front to back, when running the cane from side to side does it go over all the ones running front to back or do you weave it over and under? Any titles of recorded books, internet web sites, or pod casts would be appreciated. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: Blind Handyman Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 08:55 Subject: [BlindHandyMan] caning and repairing chairs Kevin just said he is getting $1.00 per hole and when we first started in the late 50's we were at 15 cents a hole and when I left home in 66 Mom was getting 26 cents a hole. The point I would like to make if one has the ability to use your hands and think. you might not get rich but you could make some money not only caneing but repairing older furniture. You might need some sighted help to scout out and find some deals on chairs of different kinds but the money is out there as is the ability to apply the skills as a blind handyman or handywoman. Then you toss in some learned skills at your ability to haggle on price and work that you would be willing to take in. Lee -- The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice. Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
