The manufacture of wooden furniture is an old form of applied art of our people. Using simple tools and materials widely accessible in our area, the masters create products that differ in high quality and originality, which can be seen in every detail. Many owners of private houses and country buildings have interest in the equipment of residential premises for their own manufacturing. After a prolonged winter, I so want to quickly go out into the fresh air and make something with your own hands. Unified to execute, and, most importantly, a garden furniture will become a very popular product for a good vacation in the territory of the personal plot. The chair, perhaps, will become the most indispensable attribute for any summer resident. The most natural and natural material for the manufacture of garden furniture is, of course, a tree. It can be either noble wood - beech, oak, nut, and less expensive breeds - pine, aspen, linden.
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Design features
According to their constructive features, garden chairs are divided into two main types. The former has the rear leg of the seats and the back a single element, the second - the hind legs and vertical bars of the backs consist of different details. The seats are made with whole shield or frame. Between the legs of the chair, a frame is inserted, called a sponge. This solution allows you to double the strength of the structure and its operating life compared with the same product, but without a spray.
Another way to increase the strength of the wooden product, which is subjected to constant loads, is a spike connection. The larger the cross section of the parts, the length and width of the spikes, the stronger the product will be. For a product-made of hard-shaped wood wood, the size of the square legs in the cross section must be performed at least 28x28 mm, for rectangular legs this indicator should be at least 22x40 mm. If we are talking about wood of coniferous trees, these values \u200b\u200bautomatically increase by one and a half times.
What is needed for the manufacture of a garden chair
In all the variety of lordly seats provided on the Internet, it is worth choosing the one that will be able to make, and besides, it will have an attractive appearance. So, in order to make a garden chair, you need to think about how you would like to see it, and if possible make a drawing, and then make the components of the future product.
For strong fastening of the elements of the garden chair, glue, bolts and screws are suitable. But to complete the task you will need standard carpentry devices:
- electric saw;
- plane;
- hacksaw;
- screwdriver;
- drill;
- grinder;
- clamps;
- roulette;
- ruler;
- pencil.
To make an armchair for a summer residence, no excessive effort is required. The details are the same for him, and, therefore, are easy to manufacture and interchangeable. First of all, we should decide what size of the chair we need, because such a model will look good not only as a garden chair for adults, but you can also make a reduced copy for the younger members of the family. But before you start crafts, you need to prepare a drawing of a garden chair.
For this garden chair, we will need boards with a thickness of 50 mm and 25 mm. The chair consists of four legs, two supports for the back, two support supports, two supports for the armrest of 7 planks for the back and sitting and two armrests. For fastening, 10 bolts are 10x100 mm with nuts and washers, as well as 40 screws of 50 mm.
Draw on the board future details on the sizes presented in the drawing of a garden chair and cut them out. Each product must be treated with a shirt, and then cleaned with a grinding machine. Particular attention should be paid to the ends of the elements of the product in order to protect them from moisture. To do this, we impregnate all the external surfaces with hot olifa, it is advisable to conduct such processing twice.
The next step will be the marking and drilling holes for the bolts. To do this, you need a 10 mm drill.
To assemble lateral frames, put them on the raised surface so that later the hind legs do not interfere with further manipulations. Fix the parts of the product according to the drawing. The main condition for the correct assembly is that the parts will be a mirror reflection of each other. Put both parts at a distance of 640 mm between them. The details for the back of the chair must be connected with screws parallel to each other, you can take small distances between the strips, or you can attach close, at your discretion.
Please note that experienced craftsmen use an important technological technique in the manufacture of garden chairs: the seat should have a slope in relation to the back, only in this case the use of the chair will be the most convenient. It is very important that the fasteners do not catch the clothes and are the cause of wounds, so they should be “receded” in a tree. For this, special chamfers are made that are formed by using a drill of slightly larger diameter than the holes themselves for the screws.
Like the elements of the back, we attach the parts of the seat, while the shortened bar should be between the front supports of our chair. Now there is a small thing left - to screw the armrests.
Another important manipulation will be aligning the legs with rounding or stripping the ends, the chair is performed correctly if it rests on the plane with all legs.
The garden armchair in its purpose must be wear -resistant, so so that the sun and moisture do not cause significant harm, it is necessary to protect the tree. For these purposes, varnish or paint is suitable. It is advisable to apply several layers, each of which should dry at least 24 hours.
A natural desire will improve your product - add a soft basis on the seat or tighten it with fabric with foam rubber.
How to make a rocking chair yourself
Probably, there is not a single person who at least once would not dream of slow and rhythmically swaying in an powder chair and allow his body to relax and enjoy comfort. And such an object of luxury could be a garden chair-rocking chair, and besides, made by his own hands.
For the manufacture of chairs-rocking chairs, it is best to use natural materials. It looks amazing against the backdrop of a green lawn from a willow vine or rattan. However, such products cannot be called strong, and special skills are needed to perform such work.
If the main requirements for a rocking chair are strength and wear resistance, then forged metal will be the most suitable material for it, but this skill is a few.
Despite the above, making a garden chair with your own hands, constructively, is hardly more difficult than an ordinary chair. After all, the only distinctive feature between them will be the presence of the Products (or skis) in the product. They can be completely different in length, stability in this matter will be important in this matter, because the main difference between long and short runners is the amplitude of the swing of the chair. It is also necessary to take into account the important fact that longer runners will be the least strong.
For the manufacture of the simplest rocking chair, even a drawing is not needed. And for this, an old chair or a chair with wooden legs may be quite suitable. Picture a wide element with a concave base on paper, and then cut the two of these ladies from the wood bars. On these details from the inside, it will be necessary to cut out the recesses so that the legs of a wooden chair stand tightly on them. Around each leg it is necessary to nail one restive bar on each side, only eight. Since we will get a home-made chair, without any preliminary calculations, for safe and stable swing, three large bolts should be screwed into each support. We insert the legs of the chair between the bars nailed to the support and close this structure with a plywood plate or thin board. In front, between the runners, you can add a foot stand in the form of a bar. And in order to make our chair too much, a small recess is made on the runners, which will extinguish the speed of swing and, therefore, will warn you.
If for you they do not have much importance of the dimensions and the weight of the finished product, you can make a double rocking chair from scratch. The drawing of the side parts of this design can be easily found in the public domain and copy on paper, then to transfer the contour to the material used without serious errors. It is very important to do everything right at the very beginning, so that both sidewalls are identical, and their lower part is perfectly rounded. A suitable material for our product will be a Euro -fanner 30 mm thick. The frames connecting both sidewalls are cut from it. The length of the framework will depend on the desired width of your product, and you will take care of the strength using the correctly selected thickness of the connecting sidewall of the element. The surface of the seat and back will consist of long and thin bars, driven to each other either close or at a short distance, at your discretion. There is no special standard for assembling such a product, so each master can develop its own algorithm. The frames between the sidewalls will be located at the head of the middle part and in the legs, and it is best to connect them with long conformats. It should be noted that this is exactly the case when it is better to measure several times, and then only drill the necessary holes.
Since the product consists of a large number of long and thin frames, when they are attached to the base, you can apply a small trick that is a greatly simplifying task. We are talking about the "conductor." Such a device will help without much trouble to accurately drill bars at the right distance. You can make it immediately on the spot from the remaining materials. We attach pieces of plywood from the end from the end and from the side of a small beam that serves as a limiter, and drill the “conductor” in the place we need. Now, through the resulting holes, we plan the blanks. The marking will turn out to be perfectly even and symmetrical. Further, the work of technology and your hard work, you need to drill holes in the planned bars and combine them with the basis of self -tapping screws. For the beauty and completeness of the product, the holes from self -tapping screws need to be putting. The final stage of work will be the coating of your product with varnish or paint. Only in this case, the garden chair with your own hands will last a long time and will not only be a reminder of your skill, but will certainly become an object of pride for the well -done work.
