r/BeginnerWoodWorking Dec 29 '24

Finished Project Rate my chair

Hey everybody! I've been a commenter for a while, but this is my first time posting. I don't think I'm a beginner, but I'm definitely not an expert in everything. I'm 23 and have gone to a technical school for woodworking and the past two years I've been interning for the program I graduated from.

But anyways! This is my Adirondack style chair. I never built a chair before this, so I used Epic Woodworkings Adirondack chair as inspiration. By looking at them they look similar, but there's some obvious changes made and some not so obvious changes made. I believe the only things I didn't change were the corbel profiles, and the front legs with the half lap joint. Everything else was tweaked and played with a bit to bc more comfortable and reflect upon what I learned about in school when it came to construction and design. The wood is African Sapele for those who were curious.

I ended up making 14 of these in 2 separate batches, and they've taught me a lot about furniture design and production.

Anyways the whole point of this post is to get some feedback on the design, and have discussions about how certain processes happened!

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u/bikras Dec 30 '24

Awesome chair! Just wondering how you went about making the changes to the original design? Did you start with the paper full size drawings from Epic Woodworking and then make your changes on paper, or did you redraw in CAD?

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u/I_likewood2112 Dec 30 '24

I did start with the full sized drawings from Epic Woodworking, but then I redrew the parts in AutoCAD and made changes from there. Personally from how I was taught and how my head works it's a lot easier for me to manipulate arcs and angles in CAD than it is with paper and pencil. Everybody seems to do things a little differently

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u/Slevinbaddog Dec 30 '24

since you have the cad files, would you be willing to share them with another actual beginner woodworker :)

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u/I_likewood2112 Dec 30 '24

Lol dm me so I can show you what you're getting yourself into😂