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Originally Posted by RKDinOKC
Mom had a ladderback cane seat chair. When I was just a kid dad found a guy in Grove, OK. That made 3 more chairs to match and re-canned them all.
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Yea, and assuming the guy was an likely an older man, and add your age and he is over 100 and likely long dead.
It is one of the skills that is hard to do, and does not pay a lot. Complex or difficult hand work is something going away. I can imagine there are not many old time draftsmen that can make a pen in ink drawing by hand. It is like a lot of what I did for so long for a living. Photography with film and light sensitive products and the darkroom work needed is something no one does except as a hobby on a small scale. No one can afford the equipment we had and the talent to make it work is just not around anymore. Of course computers replaces pen and ink and darkroom work. There is no digital replacement for a cane seat.