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   Tinkerer3 | Mar 21, 2009 05:02am | #1

   And if you are a very large man the plastic chairs are probably getting tired of you.  I used to park cars for tailgaters at football games.  Folks would bring in those plastic chairs to sit on while tailgating.  I was disposing those broken chairs about every game. 

   I made a porch glider from plans from Rockler and told a nephew about it.  His response was,  "Really?  What wing span is it?  Rockler has plans for various pieces of furniture and a chair variation for outside.  Bought plans for a router table to fit my router but lost them somewhere.

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   bleubassplyr | Mar 22, 2009 05:12am | #3

   I have some plans for great adirondack chairs that I bought online. I'll try to figure out where I got them. I believe it was at a site that featured the two furniture finish restorer guys-the two guys that used to have their own show and joked around while repairing furniture. The chairs are supposedly award winning chairs. They are very comfortable and look great. I've made them out of cypress, white oak, and red cedar. While the cedar chair is the lightest, it also weathers the best. The cypress is good. The white oak looked great but it weathered through the spar varnish and I've now painted it red.There are more old drunkards than old doctors.  Ben Franklin

   
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   jagwah | Mar 22, 2009 07:01am | #4

   Do you have any pictures of the chairs in red cedar? 

    

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   bleubassplyr | Mar 22, 2009 07:26pm | #9

   Attached are photos of chairs in red cedar and white oakThere are more old drunkards than old doctors.  Ben Franklin

   
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   sinsin | Mar 21, 2009 05:56pm | #2

   Check out Lee Valley plans for Adirondack chairs or as they're know north of the 49th "Muskoka Chairs"

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   Lataxe | Mar 22, 2009 02:08pm | #5

   Tom,

   I recommend these, both as a well-executed design by Mr Veritas and also as a very comfortable item to sit/snooze in.

   http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=41321.1

   Lataxe

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   ctsjr | Mar 22, 2009 02:13pm | #6

   LataxeThanks. What did you finish them with? Looks like it would be simple to make six in one run. Tom"Notice that at no time do my fingers leave my hand"

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   Lataxe | Mar 22, 2009 03:29pm | #7

   Tom,

   That chair in the pic is mostly teak.  I've made three others now that are a mixture of teak and iroko, whch necessitated staining the iroko to get a better colour match (the grain matches quite well).  Unfortunately iroko is not too keen to take a stain so I still have a certain variegated look to those chairs.  :-)

   The chair in the pic is the outdoor one so it didn't get any protection.  Already it's going grey.  The picture was taken when it was new and wetted by rain, hence the deep teak colour.

   The other three will live mostly inside the summer hoose so they got 3 coats of Liberon's garden oil.  This is more or less the same as their Finishing oil (which is mostly Tung + driers) but the garden oil has some UV filters and anti-fungal stuff added.  This oil is just to preseve the teak colour, really, as neither teak not iroko are susceptible to rot or beetle.  But untreated teak and iroko will go grey under weather and/or sunlight.

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   It took ages to make all the many parts for each chair as I began with large, rough planks of timber.  It takes a good while, even with bandsaw, tablesaw and planer/thicknesser to make the parts, especially out of ornety stuff like teak and iroko.  It takes another long while to finally shape and smooth them with handtools.  Then all that oiling.  Then mutiply by 3 (6 in your case)!  Aieeee!!

   Of course, once you have all the bits made, it doesn't take long to assemble them - using a drill/driver and impact driver at least.

   Lataxe

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   dull tool | Mar 22, 2009 06:03pm | #8

   For all you will ever want to know about out door chairs I sugggest you contact:
   Tom Gauldin at
   [email protected]
   and ask about "Jake's Chair"