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This Adirondack chair is a perfect project for a beginning woodworker. Its construction is straightforward and simple, requiring no fancy joinery techniques.
Recommended tools:
• Table saw
• Tapering jig (Free plans at https://myshopjigs.com/) or you could draw tapers and cut them with a jigsaw.
• Pocket hole jig
• Jigsaw for cutting the curves
• Sander
• Router, if you want to add an edge profile on the boards. You could also ease over the sharp edges with a sander.
• Drill and driver
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44 Comments
Where was the history lesson about the chairs? 🥺
I didn't see any wood glue in this build. Is that a purposeful choice to avoid assembly issues, gain future advantages, or did @SteveRamsey just not feel the need?
The suspense is killing me! What was the crash?
why are all your tools painted various colours? good job on the project steve
As David Picciuto said chamfers are for closers
Steve, Great to see you doing another project! Did the decorative wooden wheelbarow get removed like the wooden outdoor table?
these shall be me next build ,,,you have a habit of making things look easy🙃👍
I got the microjig dovetail clamps, night and day vs the ones you are using for ease of use
14:14 – you might want to try using good old CD for drilling holes at a 90° angle, it acts as a mirror and helps a lot, you just have to make sure that the drill bit and its reflection makes a straight line.
Another masterpiece 😉😉
16:40 Unfortunately I'm one of those people that does notice discrepancies between slats and other stuff… or if something is slightly off middle, or slightly skewed, or… etc. It's a curse really, I notice imperfections everywhere 😉
Nice job Steve, they look great, a classic design and comfy too !
Nice, Keep making video tutorials.
thanks for the video. that patio is looking real nice. I can imagine some nice morning coffee sessions out there.
Up here in the great white north, we call them Muskoka Chairs. Same design though.
Are you using actual size 3/4 inch wood? I cant seem to find 1 inch thick boards, they are all labled as 1 inch but actually 3/4 inch.
Hi from Australia. Great video. Indeed, that oil should last. As you said everything has to be tough down under.
What was the crash?
Nice work! Another good reason for buying wider boards and cutting down is that most boards are cut from young trees with the middle of the trunk in the middle of your board, which will cause the most cupping of the board. Buying a wider board allows you to cut out that middle part to minimize cupping. In this case if you want 3.5" boards you could buy an 8" or wider board and get your 3.5" pieces from either side of the middle, then throw away the middle part of the board what you have caused the most cupping.
Great build, but the best was you using Aussie oil, brought tears to my eyes, i then drunk a beer in your honour. Cheers
I would prefer using cedar but unfortunately, our local Home Depot (here in northern Arizona) doesn't seem to carry 1"x6"x8' boards. I know I could use pine but I have my sights set on cedar. The chairs will be placed on our deck and exposed to the sun and temperatures ranging from 20 to 105 degrees. So far, I have begun by building a taper jig prior to driving 100 miles round trip to where cedar can be purchased. Steve Ramsey is my guide. Thanks, Steve!
Great video. But hmmmmm, the seats don't appear to be curved. That's what makes Adirondack chairs comfortable. This looks like a back ache waiting to happen.
Very good project we always follow your show and we mis your son it was more fun
At 9.16 why not use one of the offcuts taped to the back strut to reform a 90° angle to use against your square?
You can paint these bolts
These are really cool! Might have to try them when my 2×4 ones die.
isn't the back usually curved (along horizontal) on these chairs?
Nice and amazing job.
Nice build. I need to build a couple of these.
I love the long video formats. The chairs came out awesome!
Hey Steve, I love your videos. Can you make and share plans for pet stairs? I have a small senior dog who has lost her ability to jump up on my bed. Thanks for everything from a hopeful hobbyist in San Francisco.
You mention a drill bit u use with counter sinker built in. Do you have a link for it? Thanks Love your videos!!!!!
At 00:09:00 I thought he was trolling us by making an airplane
You are great! Those look great. I can tell you they don’t last in Georgia, even pressure treated. And the ones I have are not comfy.
I love the simplicity of these chairs. I have ben woodworking for about 25 years love to over engineer my work, but I've never built an outdoor chair. Considering the south Florida weather these would be perfect as I don't think they will last more than 4 or 5 years outside anyway. Perfect. Also I've been a subscriber for around 10 years and I do believe you're getting younger.
I have missed your build videos, so good to have one of my favorite makers doing what he is best at in my subs box. Thanks Steve!
why no curved back would be easy for you
Thank you! @SteveRamsey From watching you during LOCK DOWN I have taken the plunge and started my own gardening channel and I WILL be featuring your Mobile work bench etc and you've teached me enough to build a massive work shop. Keep Doing What You're Doing!
0:24 A.K.A. The BORG.
Do you have a tutorial on making the taper jig?
i really love the design. it’s that exaggerated wide top of the design that made me click on the thumbnail. that extreme “flared” tapered back for some reason really does it for me. to be honest there are a bazillion adirondack chair videos but the unique back is what drew me in. i too enjoy the long play videos. even though i will probably never ever build any of the projects i watch i enjoy watching the process.
why must we now pay for plans?
Steve, are you watching the recent uploads of The New Yankee Workshop?
Hey Steve man I love this channel even built my own variation of your writing desk (icheapened the build up and made it more simple and table like)
But I'd like to ask do you have any plans to ever do a fishing boat build
I really wish you would consider this idea there used to be several videos on youtube showing boat build with a lot of detail and information but now all that remains are a few ten minute or less videos that aren't informative or helpful at all and a few three minute videos of people trying to get a person to buy overpriced boat plans the others are just videos of people's homemade boats in the water and show none of the build I hope you consider this as a viable option for a video
Thanks for taking time to read this