This is part two of the Adirondack chair build.
If you missed part one.
You can click right over here.
So far we have covered the arm rests, the seat frames and the seat slats.
Moving on I’m now going to cut the back slats, the ones that will run vertically,
to rough length on the miter saw.
I need 7 back slats.
I’m going to edge glue two 1x4 pieces together and then rip these down to the width that
I want later.
While those are drying in the clamps I’ll go back to the miter saw and cut two back
frame pieces.
These will get a radius cut into them to accept the back slats
Now a quick google search for “How to figure the radius of an arc” will yield 7 million
760,000 thousand search results.
Any number of those will provide a calculator and do the dirty work for you.
So I’ll mark the center of my board.
Then measure two inches up from the center.
From that cross point I’ll measure 20 and one eighth inches perpendicular to the board.
Look at me using all these big words, I so learneded.
In case you haven’t noticed, this doesn’t have to be perfect or exact.
In fact, you could hand draw this if you wanted or break out an oversized compass and make
it perfect.
Just for the sake of variety, I’m using the band saw.
The jigsaw would be completely acceptable.
Again with the obvious.
I’m going to smooth out the band saw blade marks at the drill press.
Those are done and I’ll set those aside and go back to the miter saw and cut these
back legs.
The front legs are next and I’ll switch to the table saw miter gauge to cut them both
at the same time.
I’m going to make some tapered cuts in all four legs.
No scientific measurements here, simply what feels right.
Then connect those two marks and line the boards up on the tapering jig.
Same process for the back legs.
Remember those back slats in the clamps?
Those are dry.
Lets take them out and rip them to width on the table saw.
I’ll get three back slats out of each of the two glue ups about 2 and a quarter inches
wide.
I’ll rip that last one out of a 1x4 and the off cut piece will be used later in the
project.
I have figured this all out to have very little waste.
I forgot to round over the edges of the arm rests when I rounded over the edges of the
seat slats, so I’ll do that now before I start assembly.
I have set up two stop blocks on the drill press.
Because these screws are so close to the edge I think it’s imperative to predrill these
holes.
One of the drills is set up with a countersink bit and the other with the bit I will need
to drive the screws Ahh, we are making good progress.
Part 3, you know where to click.
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Until then.