Projects and Plans
Assembling an Adirondack Chair
Watch the chair parts go together and learn a simple technique for cutting and shaping the arms.
Fine Woodworking associate editor Tom Begnal researched several of Adirondack chair designs before he came up with the final patterns and dimensions for the example detailed here.
In this video, Begnal demonstrates two ways to cut and shape the parts, and then goes step by step through the assembly process, taking it from a pile of parts to a comfortable finished project.
For detailed project plans and instructions, read Begnal’s article “Adirondack Chair” in the August 2007 issue of Fine Woodworking.
Comments
Your magazine is great but the online is troublesome. Your featured article on the adirondak chair has a link to get the full size plans. But it is a dead link. Can't even ensure the featured page is correct and works,properly!!??
Link is fixed. Unfortunately I don't know about dead links till someone tells me. Leave a comment or email [email protected] and I'll get it fixed up as soon as possible. You're right, an article featured in an eLetter shouldn't have a broken link, but things slip by me from time to time. Apologies.
yup i have experienced several dead links lately as well...quite frustrating
Yes, please fix this... I also love your magazine but dead links do make these projects a tad harder... need to come up with curves by eye... template please...
The subscribe links all over after you login are annoying too. I'm subscribed already! Check my user object and hide those!
I am concerned about the durability of the joints in this chair given the softness of cedar and the fact that the stock i only 3/4". Additionally, a the wood shrinks and swell from moisture changes the bolts always become loose and when loose and weight added the holes wobble out since the threaded portions work into the wood. If you can find carriage bolt with nearly no threads on the body through the wood it is much better. Sometimes you have to buy longer ones and cut off the excess threads. Anyhow, it seems to me the use of some good water proof glue at the main weight bearing joints joints would significantly add to the durability?
I have some Adirondack chairs made from Teak and Mahogany and they are more than 10 years old and always outside in Northern Wisconsin and unfinished. They will easily last another 20 but the wood was expensive and they are heavy. I used epoxy on all the joints and plugged the crew holes.
@BenStrano The W3C can help you out with checking links: http://validator.w3.org/checklink
Thank you for that? I'm sending it up the IT line with hopes we can buckle down and knock a bunch of these out.
The link to the cutlist does not work. Help please.
It looks like the print plans aren't available anymore.
Would love to get these plans but they seem to be gone?” Can they be re-posted please.
If you click on the hyper-linked "Adirondack Chair" at the end of the text, above, it should take you to the page with the link to the article which has all the details you should need to build the chair.
I just had the figures of the two templates (armrest and side) from 2007 article enlarged to 400% . I checked this and the copy is enlarged by 400%. The measurements from the enlarged copy do not match those listed in the articles plans.
This suggests to me that the 400% enlargement is not the correct ratio. Any way to fix this? I like the design but am frustrated by this glitch.
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