Need advice chair

[nico]

Being an amateur (and a member for some time reading the posts daily ;-)) I need some advice, surfing the internet for outdoor furniture I found a picture of a beautiful chair and I loved it because of it's pure lines ( see picture1)
,my question is: has anybody any idea how to create the connection from  seat to the back of the chair ( see the second picture) I created it with paint and it's in cm ( being from Belgium)  + is it legal to reproduce such a chair ?( is not to be sold -> just to be build for my own garden + the challenge of course)
can anybody help me with this .

kr
Nico

 

[nico]

this is picture 1

 

[monte]

Nico,

Welcome to the forum.

It's a very clean design.

Personally, I would not run a deep angled rabbet as deep as you show in your drawing in the horizontal slats.

It would take away from the structual integrity of the chair.

What I would do is run a very shallow straight rabbet, let's say 1/8th inch (.2 cm)

And then I would take your domino (if you have one, if not-we need to revisit this post) and run it at an angle to the horizontal slats)

The purpose of the shallow run is just to catch the vertical slats as you set them.

I would probably go with an 8 by 40 domino for each slot.

My guess is that there is are 2 thin dowels or brass rods (one near the top, one near the bottom) running thru the vertical slats to hold them in line.

They would disappear into the left and right verticals.

With some pins then setting them to the back horizontal rail.

hope this helps,

Roger

ps. as long as they are for yourself make as many as you wish.

Rabbet...A cut partway through the edge of a board that is used as a part of a joint.
slat.... a thin narrow flat strip especially of wood or metal

 

[nico]

Roger,
thanks for the tips , but do you have any idea how I can make those angled rabbets
(I don't have a table saw, but I own a 55)

kr,

Nico

 

[slb]

Roger,
thanks for the tips , but do you have any idea how I can make those angled rabbets
(I don't have a table saw, but I own a 55)

kr,

Nico

If you have a router, you can make a ramp for it to ride on at the required angle (similarly if you use a router table).  I've done this for ad-hoc slopes on raised panels.  The only downside is that the bit has to be able to protrude a large distance from the router.

Steve

 

[monte]

Nico,

ok, if all you have is the 55 (and a rail),

I would take your slats, bunch them together......

laying each one flat on the table,

and double face tape them to a piece of mdf, be sure to burnish down the tape very well before you pull the second paper.

(and put one or two out in the distance to support the length of the rail - these are not to be cut)

set your angle and your depth for the shallow cut........and run that cut

then set your depth for the deeper cut........and run that cut.

then take a slat off, on that edge that you see the two cuts,

score a line between them

grab a sharp chisel, and have at it.

go down incrementally, don't try and whack it off in one go.

proceed slowly.

then repeat until your done.

Roger

ps. use the good double face tape with good sticky -  there is a lot of crap out there.

ps.2 . some sort of clamping device to hold down the slat as you are chiseling would be handy.

 

[nico]

OK
I will try both solutions and will post my findings + the pictures.
any suggestions about the wood I should use ?

Nico

 

[Notorious T.O.D.]

I would say another possilble way is to cut the matching angle on the top back rail piece so that the vertical slats fully contact it and then attach with a screw (crude) or a hidden dowl or domino between the two pieces. The bottom of the verticals then could also be cut at the angle to match the seat slats and secured with a screw from underneath the seat slat up into the vertical or with another hidden dowl or domino between them.  The fact that the top rail is wider at the bottom than at the top is hidden by the arms and it looks to be the same width as the other pieces on the top side.  It seems to me that the slats must be secured at the bottom to resist the force that someone could apply to them by leaning or pushing on the top of the vertical slats.

It also seems to me that the seat sits high or the back verticals are very short if the seat is in the 17 to 19 inch high range...which I would think would be typical for this type of seating...

Best,
Todd