the windsor workshop
James Mursell has been making Windsor chairs for 26 years. He was introduced to
them by veteran teacher Jack Hill, on a course at West Dean College.
Subsequently he studied with Mike Dunbar, one of America’s leading experts on
Windsor chairs, and has been a full-time professional chairmaker for the past 20
years. James Mursell initially made chairs to commission, selling through
galleries and shows. As tine went on he started The Windsor Workshop to teach
Windsor chair making, building a new purpose-built workshop in 2006. He has
developed a range of specialist chair making tools. These include his unique
travisher for shaping chair seats, and spokeshaves During the first COVID
lockdown he developed two new scraper tools.He sells these tools all over the
world to discerning woodworkers.
