DIY Adirondack Chair

Each person needs a cozy place to relax in nature. In their own country houses and cottages, people often put simple benches or even chairs designed for gatherings in the open air. Often such simple designs are inconvenient. They do not allow you to comfortably spend a long time in the lap of nature, are difficult to transport and take up a lot of storage space. For such purposes, an ideal lounge chair - Adirondack.

Adirondack is a unique armchair for relaxation created by a simple American craftsman with his own hands - Thomas Lee. This simple design made of slatted wooden boards with wide armrests installed allows you to spend a pleasant evening with friends or with a cup of warm coffee.

When folded, it does not take up much space - which, undoubtedly, is another plus in the piggy bank of this type of chair. Thanks to the uncomplicated standard drawing, you can give the chair an exclusive appearance, limited only by the imagination of the creator. A sample drawing can be taken on the Internet.

ATTENTION! The tree from which the chair is made must be of high quality! Fruit species and “noble wood” (from the family of oak, maple, etc.) are best suited for such purposes.

At the same time, for small fragments of the structure, pallets or wooden boxes can be used.

The design of the Adirondack chair allows you to manufacture the product without the use of any special tools and without special skills. At the heart of the Adirondack are simple boards on which wooden bars are repeated with nails, repeating the shape of the product.

So, to make a chair you will need:

• Product drawing;
• Boards treated in a special way. It is necessary to polish the material, remove all bumps and burrs;
• Galvanized screws (4.5x40 mm), bolts (10x60 mm) and nuts with washers;
• Jigsaw for cutting boards;
• Grinder and hand milling cutter for easier operation and rounding.

REFERENCE! An electric jigsaw, a grinding machine and a manual milling cutter need not be used in the preparation and assembly process. all the necessary workpieces can be cut with a hacksaw and processed with ordinary sandpaper

First of all, it is worth finding a drawing according to which parts are made and the whole structure is assembled. If you decide to create something of your own, it is worth considering some technical aspects in your schematic drawing:

The most difficult of the elements is the seat supports located on the sides of the structure. You need to make a full-sized template on paper before making them from the material used. After creating a detailed drawing of the entire product, we cut out the details of the structure and proceed to assembly.

ATTENTION! Wooden furniture is rotten at the docking stations. Inaccessible, after assembly, internal surfaces are especially vulnerable. Therefore, they should be treated with at least two layers of antiseptic.

It is worth considering that the parts of the product are connected with screws. Experienced craftsmen select the thickness of the drill by the thickness of the screws in order to further hide the screw caps under the stopper plug. To do this, use carpentry glue and a cork cut from an unnecessary board.

So. Getting to the assembly:

• We cut out the necessary parts with a jigsaw or a hacksaw;
• We process them using a grinding machine or a knife machine. We remove all irregularities from the surface;
• We make holes for the bolts. When working with the sidewall, it is necessary to align the board along the edge of the table, and then make holes equal in diameter to the thickness of the screw. By this principle, we assemble both sides of the frame;
• We install the rear legs, placing them perpendicular to the bevel of the support;
• Following the drawing, we connect the side parts of the chair with the main one, and then evenly fasten the rails, except for the one closest to the back of the chair;
• We install props and fix them, and then fasten the armrests with screws;
• Following the scheme, we align the back, fasten and fasten the remaining parts and eliminate minor imperfections;
• Using a manual milling cutter, round the corners of the structure;

REFERENCE! Small design errors can be easily eliminated by a small shift of the upper cross member, cutting its angle. In particularly difficult situations, you can dismantle the crossbar and adjust the angle of the cutout on it.

Our chair is ready. It remains only to sand the marking marks, remove chips and eliminate other defects. It is highly recommended that the product be coated with oil. This will extend the durability of the resulting structure, preserve its shade and protect against some external harmful factors.