Dennis Aspö's lawn chairs

Denis Aspö writes:

Hi, I made my 2nd chair and I took a few more pictures that I didn't manage last time as the camera battery died. If you want to use some of those pictures you're welcome to.

Finished result just after a coat of oil with brown pigment, made from surplus construction lumber and leftover panels and whatnot. Excuse the backdrop, we're still working on our yard

Quite a mess after planing all the lumber, my vacuum motor is too weak to keep up, I just use to clean up afterwards.

Finished lumber

1:1 printouts (from the plans)

Took the unfinished chair indoors so the glue would dry, spring in Finland is too cold for the glue to properly set outdoors yet. Kids loved it, best toy in a while.

Anyway that's my first chair, but not my last, thanks for the plans, I quite like the look of these over regular Adirondack chairs. Hope the spruce/pine holds up as well as cedar, guess with yearly maintenance it should...

Dennis later wrote:

Hi, I made my 2nd chair and I took a few more pictures that I didn't manage last time as the camera battery died. If you want to use some of those pictures you're welcome to.

I decided to make a jig as I think I will be making more of these later, I just used the 1:1 printout however rather than transferring the lines and such.

I also did this on the first chair to get the rear edge of the seat closer to the back, I took a spokeshave and bevelled the edge. I could just have cut it like that on my bandsaw but I hate tilting the table on it, it's a chore to get it back to square afterwards. Part of a future modification, I've already applied some lessons from your wooden bandsaw to it (added lower enclosure to keep dust in, raised the lower blade guides by putting them on a wooden block, think it sat a whole 30cm under the table originally).

Here is the finished chair, not yet stained next to the 1st chair:

Also I started making tool holders after your latest videos on them. I mostly have french cleats in my garage shop but I made this smaller panel to have next to my table saw with the tools I tend to reach for the most when using the table saw. The speed square is incredibly useful I must say, and they don't sell them in European, I bought mine from Texas. Another thing I've learned from your videos is taking the time to finish projects, even just shop tool holders like this. It really makes a difference in the long run.

See also:

Building a lawn chair

enhanced Lawn chair
plans (to buy, $7)

Lawn chair plans
(basic free version)