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Garden chairs

Postby Paisawood » 05 Dec 2021, 13:56

Earlier this year I made a batch of redwood chairs for our garden plus a couple more for a neighbour.
Recently another neighbour asked me to make two more of these chairs which I am currently doing. I rarely post on the forum but thought that I would have a go at producing a WIP sequence.

The first step was buying some 38mm thick unsorted redwood from a local supplier which I left in the workshop for a few days before planing and thicknessing.
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Fortunately I had retained the layout drawing (on a piece of mdf) and the mdf templates which I had used previously so I didn't need to go through another design phase.

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Next I dimensioned the timber for the sides thicknessing the leg parts to 35mm and the seat rails and other crosspieces to 30mm.


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I used 12mm home made oak dominos for the joints but to simplify cutting the angled joints for the lower part of the legs I drew the outline of the legs onto the prepard timber and then cut the domino slots at 90 degrees to the edge.

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After this, I fixed the leg template onto the timber and cut out each leg with the bandsaw followed by a final clean up on the router table with a 1/2 inch bearing guided cutter. (Using a starter pin for safety.)


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Unfortunately the router cutter was getting blunt and I blew out the wood in the centre of one of the legs.

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Not a major problem though and I clamped the damaged leg to the sliding table on the saw and cut back to undamaged wood before gluing a patch on and cleaning up on the router table with a sharper cutter!


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Once repaired, I got on with gluing up the four sides using D4 glue. To clamp the angled leg I used a small wedge to keep the clamp square.


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That's all for now. I will continue with the next phase in a few days.

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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Dec 2021, 14:10

I like that.

Why can I never find timber like that down here?

Can anyone in Devon tell me where?
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby 9fingers » 05 Dec 2021, 14:14

Nice recovery!

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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Mike G » 05 Dec 2021, 14:28

I dunno, every last way I look at your seat support rail it seems upside-down to me. What am I seeing?
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Doug » 05 Dec 2021, 14:34

Could I ask David if your bandsaw guides are original to the machine or after market?



Mike G wrote:I dunno, every last way I look at your seat support rail it seems upside-down to me. What am I seeing?


Isn’t that so the chair seat is dished slightly ?
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby 9fingers » 05 Dec 2021, 14:52

Mike G wrote:I dunno, every last way I look at your seat support rail it seems upside-down to me. What am I seeing?

Looks ok to me Mike. Concave seat support is the right way surely?
Maybe you have got used to so many rotated pictures recently and David’s are all the right way round :lol:

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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Paisawood » 05 Dec 2021, 15:08

9fingers wrote:
Mike G wrote:I dunno, every last way I look at your seat support rail it seems upside-down to me. What am I seeing?

Looks ok to me Mike. Concave seat support is the right way surely?
Maybe you have got used to so many rotated pictures recently and David’s are all the right way round :lol:

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Yes, that's right. Here is a photo from the first batch showing a completed chair. When I did a mock-up originally, a dished seat was far more comfortable than a flat one.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Paisawood » 05 Dec 2021, 18:11

[quote="Doug"]Could I ask David if your bandsaw guides are original to the machine or after market?

Doug,
The guides are the original Startrite guides which came with the machine. They seem to work ok and are easy to adjust but I,m not convinced hat they are better than he standard bearing guides. I had a few problems a few years ago when some of the ptfe rubbing strips came unstuck but I glued them back in with superglue and they haven't moved since.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Malc2098 » 05 Dec 2021, 18:48

Paisawood wrote:
Doug wrote:Could I ask David if your bandsaw guides are original to the machine or after market?

Doug,
The guides are the original Startrite guides which came with the machine. They seem to work ok and are easy to adjust but I,m not convinced hat they are better than he standard bearing guides. I had a few problems a few years ago when some of the ptfe rubbing strips came unstuck but I glued them back in with superglue and they haven't moved since.
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They look similar to the guides on my Laguna.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Doug » 06 Dec 2021, 08:48

Paisawood wrote:
Doug wrote:Could I ask David if your bandsaw guides are original to the machine or after market?

Doug,
The guides are the original Startrite guides which came with the machine. They seem to work ok and are easy to adjust but I,m not convinced hat they are better than he standard bearing guides. I had a few problems a few years ago when some of the ptfe rubbing strips came unstuck but I glued them back in with superglue and they haven't moved since.
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Thanks for the reply David, the guides on my hammer are in need of changing, the guides on my little Elu bandsaw are blocks & I really like those so I’m looking for a similar system.

I know Felder make ceramic block guides to fit the N4400 but I’m yet to find anyone with personal experience of them & don’t want to buy them blind as they come with a Felder price.

I’ll probably wait till they have their next open day as ideally I’d like to see them in action.
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Re: Garden chairs - Continued

Postby Paisawood » 24 Dec 2021, 17:16

Once the glue had dried on the side sections of the chairs I cut the domino slots for joining the sides. Because of the rake on the chair back I had to use a spacer piece to provide a flat surface to register the domino machine.

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I then dimensioned the wood for the crosspieces before cutting the mortices for the back slats. For this I used a double plunge with the domino jointer and squared up the ends with a chisel.

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I then shaped the top rail before fitting the slats, These were loose fitted and not glued,

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After this I finished off the domino slots and glued everything together.

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The remaining jobs were straightforward but a bit time consuming. Seat slats were dimensioned first and shaped on the spindle moulder before cutting to length

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In order to continue the seat curve, the front slat (which sits on the front rail) was chamfered on the bandsaw .

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The seat slats and armrest were all drilled and conterbored to take plugs which were cut using a Veritas 1/2 inch plug cutter. Slats were then screwed and plugs were glued in. Once dry the plugs were levelled.

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A small corbel was added to the top of the front legs to support the armrests. This was not very elegant but I was not comfortable about just screwing the armrests into endgrain. A chamfered wooden block was then clamped to the back legs to provide a reference surface for cutting the domino slots for the rear of the armrests.

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The sides of the armrests were roundedand the end was roundedusing a coping sled to protect the end grain.
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Armrests were then glued and screwed into place and chamfers were cut on the bottom of the legs.
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Finally I made up a simple joining tray with stop blocks to keep it in place,

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And that's the end
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Not exactly fine woodworking but functional. Hope that it was of interest.

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Re: Garden chairs

Postby 9fingers » 24 Dec 2021, 17:37

Certainly of interest David. I was intrigued by the bridge shelf/table.

Thanks for posting.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Andyp » 24 Dec 2021, 19:02

they do look good.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Phil » 25 Dec 2021, 09:34

Very nice, the tray is a good idea, I am sure the recipients will be pleased. 8-)
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Malc2098 » 25 Dec 2021, 10:57

Nice job!
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby TrimTheKing » 26 Dec 2021, 12:05

Functional and well made, nice.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby AJB Temple » 19 May 2023, 18:22

Nice WIP. And safe working practices too.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby Cabinetman » 20 May 2023, 00:05

Nicely done David, what -if anything do you finish them with? And thank you for putting together the wip.
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Re: Garden chairs

Postby johnward » 20 May 2023, 07:19

Very good David. You have given me some ideas on making two chairs for myself.
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