A couple of years ago I built a table and chair set for a friend’s two little girls. Well since then they had a little boy and the “Lil Guy” needs a chair. I poked around the shop to try and find the drawings for the set so that I could get some measurements. I found something that looked like kids chairs so off I went.
The previous set of chairs had a straight back, but this set I wanted a little rake. So I made this template from some packaged pine
I planed down some scrap spruce I had laying around to 1 ¼ for the front legs.
Here is the 2×6x8 for the back legs and a couple of pieces of 1×3 strapping for the aprons and back rails.
I milled the 2×6 to 1 ¼ and cut to rough length. Here I am marking out the back legs.
Rough cut on the ole bandsaw.
Getting ready with the template bit for final leg shaping
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rtb
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posted 13 days ago
I think that you are well started. Don’t forget to let us go along for the rest of the chair.
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Russel
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posted 12 days ago
It’s kinda fun makin’ stuff for the little ones. I’m expecting this to turn out rather nicely and looking forward to the finished product. Did you use a specific angle for the back, or did you eyeball it?
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Zuki
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posted 12 days ago
I was thinking about 5 degrees, but that seemed like to much when I initially marked it out. I believe my eye settled with 3.
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stefang
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posted 12 days ago
Looks like a nice project Zuki. Also a good blog. I thought the usual rake for chairs was 7-11 degrees. I made a garden bench for my son using 7 degrees, but I felt it was way too straight afterward. It probably won’t matter either way for kids though, since they rarely sit still long enough to notice the comfort factor anyway,
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a1Jim
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posted 12 days ago
Keep the fun coming ,well done so far
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spud72
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posted 11 days ago
Welcome back. haven’t heard from you in a while
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