Finally ready for the elements

My chair is finally completed. It's got two coats of Intergrain timber oil in natural, so should be able to handle the elements. It's a little orange for my liking - it looks like its got a case of fake tan gone wrong - but I figured that with time, it'll look less orangey new.

Might not use the same stain on the second chair and experiment with a different stain. We'll see... Stand by for chair number two!

Front view

View from the back

My masterpiece

It was a pretty tough challenge but thoroughly enjoyable. So much so
that I've signed up to another term of the course. Next time, it will
be made of pine fence palings which will be put through the planer,
instead of the comparatively dressed pine that this was made of.

Let's see if it comes out as well. At least there have been some
learnings that can be brought across to the next chair.

Dan having a go

Proud I finally achieved the goal of building some furniture, after
years of talking about it!

Hard worker enjoying the fruits of his labor

A minute to enjoy a break after all his hard work! Maisie enjoyed the
attention too.

Momentous occasion

Final screw being worked in very carefully.

Wow! It's really starting to look like a chair!

Precision work

No drill allowed to finish the assembly...

One step forward, two steps back

D'oh! The drill won't fit the space available to attach the back
slats, so had to dismantle the previously attached seat slats.
Frustrating...

Bring in the cavalry!

With the broken piece replaced, it was time to call in the cavalry.
Dragged in Peter's engineering (and drilling) expertise to help speed
up the assembly process.

Beware the knot!!

When trying to drill the supporting part to the back, the knot created
a huge crack in the timber. Project on hold for a day until the piece
can be replaced.

Legs attached

Getting the angle between the seat and the legs were a bit of a
challenge but I finally managed to work it out. The spirit level
confirmed everything is even. Phew!!

Stage 1 of assembly completed

It's starting to look like a chair...

Adirondack Chair Plan - Imperial to Metric conversion

Add caption

Sawdust everywhere!!

Hard at work with the new toy

My first woodworking power tool

The little router bit (to shave off corners into curves) cost a third
of the price of the router itself!

Does it all fit together?

While waiting for the router to be freed up, I thought I'd see if the
seat slats fit on the supporting pieces.

Very pleased to see everything fits together for the most part,
despite any roundings of figures between the imperial an metric
conversions.

A few of the seat slats suffered from my careless/inexperienced
handlin of the router (to curve the sharp corners).

One I can live with. It might even become one of those little things
to remind myself, and more important, others, of my first foray into
woodworking.

But another was so badly gouged I decided to redo with the spare back
slat that I was no longer using. Carrying all that extra wood came in
handy after all!!

This evening I completed all the cutting and shaping required to
complete the chair. I managed to get my hands on the router and worked
on half of the back slats. Unfortunately there are still too many to
do.

Seriously thinking of buying a router on the weekend so I can get all
the pieces routed and start to assemble! That way I can hopefully
start on my second chair next week.

Let's see what happens...

Complicated shape

My final complex shape to cut out - the supporting structure for the
seat slats to sit on. Haven't used a protractor since high school
math!! It all came flooding back. So, there is a reason for all that
math at school after all!