Cypress Stick Chairs

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

After three more years I finally made something from some of the cypress lumber that Woodbowl milled for me back in March of 2010. https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,42628.msg615711.html#msg615711

I made four of these stick chairs.



 



 



 

Each chair is made up of 31 pieces. The pieces are joined together using 1/8" stainless steel rods.

I'm making these chairs as a gift for my BIL and SIL who live in Newfoundland, Canada. We're going up for a visit next month.

This is the first of the chairs and was fully assembled to ensure that everything fit together right. It does fold but not as compactly as might be desired for transporting large numbers of them in a car. So the other three are going unassembled. I guess I'll just tell my BIL that they're in kit form.  ;D

[woody329]

Very nice.

[beenthere]

Very clever chair design. Look to be fun to make too.
Except for the longer pieces for legs, are the other three lengths the same shapes/sizes (i.e. back, seat, and angled pieces) ?

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

BeenThere,

I can't claim credit for the design. I've seen them several places on the web. This guy, Trip, has a page with parts listing, diagrams and a video. http://woodworkingtrip.blogspot.be/2012/09/how-to-build-folding-stick-chair.html

The chair consists of five different pieces. I followed Trip's plan except he used Big Box Store 2X ripped into 1 1/2" X 1 1/4" strips. Most of my cypress was milled at 5/4 and cleaned up to 1" thick. So I ripped the pieces into 1" X 1 1/2" strips. I cut up 16 1" x 6" x 6' boards and had several strips left over.

Making the strips thinner meant I had to add some extra strips to maintain the overall width. Basically I had to add two extra strips of (A) Seat, (C) Back - Long and (F) Couplers.

I used a Freud Quadra Cut 3/4" roundover bit to round the ends of the sticks.



 

Then I used a Quadra Cut 3/8" roundover bit to round edges of the sticks.



 

The Quadra Cut bits are really nice and I believe well worth the premium price. They have extra cutters that are designed to produce a much cleaner profile.



 

I did not have to sand the routed edges at all to get a suitable surface for the finish I used. I did sand the flat surfaces with a 5" ROS. There I used 80 grit Arbranet which worked great. It only took one disk to sand all the pieces and the disk was still cutting strong when I was done.



 

If you do use the Abranet, be sure to purchase and use a pad protector, otherwise the hooks on the sander's pad will extend through the Abranet mesh and get sanded off, then they won't hold any disks...



 

Herb

[clww]

Fine looking furniture.  ;)

[mesquite buckeye]

I like them a lot. Good job.  ;D How do they sit?

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

I like them a lot. Good job.  ;D How do they sit?

They are very comfortable. My wife's only complaint is that they are a bit hard for her to get out of because they are low and don't have arms to push against when trying to stand up. I told her that she could just keep her seat and I'd get the next round for her...

Herb

[drobertson]

Once again another plan comes together 8) 8), nice looking furniture PC, they should last a long time, I was thinking on making some similar from clear white oak,  david

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

David,

White oak should make some awesome chairs.

Herb