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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#1 posted 11-08-2009 03:52 AM
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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#2 posted 11-08-2009 02:32 PM
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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#3 posted 11-08-2009 03:39 PM
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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#4 posted 11-08-2009 06:12 PM
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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#5 posted 11-08-2009 06:19 PM
Keep the fun coming ,well done so far
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#6 posted 11-09-2009 01:12 PM
Welcome back. haven’t heard from you in a while
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#7 posted 04-14-2015 01:46 PM
This is great, thanks for posting this all those years ago, it is really helping me at the moment with chairs for my girls.
Thanks,
Garry
-- Garry fae Bonnie Scotland
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