Telescope Observing Chair

I like your chair. nice design. keep up the good work. have fun.

-- jerryw-wva.

Nice chair and designed for a purpose. Great job. Kids could use something like that to sit at a table.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Nice, Karson’s right, it could be used in numerous scenarios. Great job.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

cool design and very functional

-- Marge, Colorado

I love the chair Jerry, any chance you could post plans or make them available?

Keep up the good work!

-- -- Rob Hix, King George, VA

Great design and execution.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Great chair.

-- Maplewood, MN

Can you tell us if the it appears the seat removes for easy storage?
Ingenious design and its well executed. Good work. Thx for sharing.

Great design!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Neat design. I like it a lot!

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

That looks sweet. I could see that coming in handy while scrolling or working at the workbench.

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

Great design! This is a good idea that could be applied to other projects.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. The seat does in fact slide off the top. I’ve seen designs where the bar in back passes through the seat sides and is removable. This lets the seat be positioned independently of the legs. I’ve also seen versions that add a movable foot rest using a similar sliding mechanism. If I end up using this one in a high position I’ll be adding a foot rest myself.

To RobH, I can get you the “plans” that I used if you want them. I used them as a rough guide and if you look at this chair you’ll see the spacer blocks at the top, middle, and bottom. It’s obvious that the guy who did the plans I used wasn’t a wood worker. My second version will use cross pieces at the top and bottom with three mortise & tennon joints in place of the spacers and threaded rod.

I plan to use two pieces of dowel in the middle. They are short enough that I can get a hole through them without much trouble.

-- Jerry L.

Don’t know if you’ve gotten any feedback from astronomers, but there’s a couple of us that find your chair design very intriguing. A fellow astronomer/friend is taking a woodworking class and has offered to think about building me a chair like yours if I can come up with the plans. I notice that you’ve already received one request for plans, and that you plan on improving those plans – Either way, any plans that you might care to share would be greatly appreciated. I use a small telescope design known as a Schmitt-Cassagrain, and I’m constantly having to bend over or squat to use it, and since this telescope is “clock” driven I can spend long periods in a single position observing and/or photographing. So yes, please do share.

Thanks very much.

-- -- "Keep Looking Up..." - Jack Horkheimer

Nice chairKeep up the good work

-- jeanmarc manosque france