I'm gonna build one of these lawn chairs
from the plans from my website
and I've also printed out some one to
one templates for some of the shapes
using my big print program. And I've got my wood.
And I set up my small bandsaw outside because
it's nice today.
I'm building these side frames
A segmented curve right about here, and I'm just gonna
mark positions for these segments
so the first one's 1.1 centimeters deep and the second
is 1.6 deep.
I'm just gonna use that first piece to
mark the other 3 pieces I need to cut out.
This cheap bandsaw blade has very little set
to it, which means it's terrible at cutting
curves. But it does cut super clean. These legs are just one
2 by 6 right down the middle. And I'm just gonna get the
here and mark on the ends
If you're gonna a lot of lawn chairs it makes
sense to build a jig like I have a picture of in the plans
but I'm only gonna build the one this time. So I'm
just gonna line these up carefully with my one to one
print-out as I nail them together.
So, there's another
two pieces that go on here. But before I nail those on
I'm gonna use this piece here as a jig
to make sure my other frame is
going to be identical to this one.
Next I'm gonna build this frame for
the back which supports all the boards that go onto it.
It needs this complicated shape for these things here.
I made myself a template by making
a one to one printout of that
that part here so I don't have to draw these complicated arcs.
I need to cut some dado's in these
long pieces here, right here.
And I've jigged this up so that I can
cut the dado's with my circular saw.
A good method for spacing these evenly
is just to make some spacers that all fit in here but
I didn’t bother to make any. So, I'm just
kind of trying to arrange these by eye
so there all about the same and I'm
just gonna tack these in slightly
Now I just line them up with the old nail holes
and they'll be in exactly the right spot.
One thing I forgot to add earlier is this block thing.
That goes in here for nailing the
back onto, just to get more support.
For the back angle, I recommend you
do a trial assembly with clamps.
Just to make sure you actually like the
angle because there's different reclines
that work best.
But I already know this angle is on the
other lawn chair and I like that one.
So I'm just gonna do that without a trial thing.
And this corner should be flush with the bottom edge here.
And this on the back corner here.
It's important to test with this on a
level surface, so that the chair doesn't
end up rocking. But I still need to get the
glue into those joints before I nail them
Now I just have to line that up with the old nail holes
Well, I'm taking a break from the project because
it's raining. There's my bandsaw covered up.
And I got my lawn chair stashed in my
shed so at least that's not getting wet.
Well, at least that rain didn't last all day.
I cut this bevel inside on the table
and then I used my bevel gauge
to check what the next mating bevel
is that I needed for the next
And before I nail this one on, I'm
gonna cut another bevel on here.
To match with the next board. But
the mating bevel on this one
need to mark where I got to cut away for those legs.
This last board gets a bit tricky
depending on the slope that you
picked for you back, this may or may
not work out very well. So this board needs to get cut away
a bit so that it moves into here,
only it needs to move back by
about this much to make room for
this board. So, I'm just gonna use
a compass to mark an offset
where I need to cut off.
So I cut away quite a bit
of that last board and I'm just gonna strengthen it a bit
by gluing it to the second last board,
so there gonna be like one board.
Well, I don't know
with interruptions for rain and
noisy neighbors and overhead planes
it took be about 5 hours to build this chair
that with all the breaks, I was starting to
run out of daylight, but it's all done now.