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Saw some chairs like this at a Medieval Faire. Made a few revisions, and this is what I came up with. My wife calls them outhouse chairs because of the crescent moon. The 2 by 4 pulls out of the back of the chair easily for storage. They are very comfortable and very stable. Hope you like them.

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I think they are cool. Demenions please sir. I've never seen anything like them.
 

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the back is a 2 by 12 , 5 feet long
the support is a 2 by 4 , 4 feet long
the seat is a 2 by 12 , 18 inches long
cut a rectangular hole in the back about 13 inches up from the bottom just big enough for the 2 by 4 to fit through
I used treated wood
 

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thanks alot needler
 

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KOOL!! Yup, I like 'em. Think they would hold up made of 1x to lighten them up a little? Or, maybe reinforce the hole in the back if it were 1x??
 

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those are way cool chairs, thanks for sharing the pics and the dims. Nice work!
~Dan
 

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Unique
 

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These look like really cool chairs, thanks for posting.
 

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Very unusuall.Nice colour
 

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Those are really cool. How comfy are they?
 

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If you do a search for Stargazer chairs, there is a lot of info out there, including some variations. They are comfortable for sitting in, especially around a campfire at night. You might be able to get away with 1x material, depending on how much weight they would need to support. I liked the look of the bracing on those Senufo chairs.
 

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A similar concept tribal chair is done here in Africa. Yours is a modern, much cleaner version. I like.
 

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Chairs like these used to be super common around SCA events. People wrongly called them "Viking Chairs" for years until numerous links to Africa and zero links to Northern Europe convinced them to stop. Around out house, we call them "Pennsic Chairs" because that's the only time we really use them a lot.
 
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