This chair, unlike a Windsor, has no turnings: the legs are octagonal in profile, the stretchers and spindles (the “sticks”) are carved and planed. As in a Windsor, though, the legs pierce the seat and are wedged in place, as are the stretchers through the legs, and the sticks are pegged in place in the crest. While these chairs were often made of one or two available woods and finished naturally (or not), I use a variety of woods to take advantage of the strengths of each species—straight-grained ash and oak for legs, spindles, and sticks; easily carved pine or poplar for seats—and finish the chair with layered milk paint, after the style of modern Windsors.