Outdoor Furniture

[Brian Harnett]

I made these sets up for the library still have 3 more sets od tables and chairs plus some benches and other tables to assemble and deliver, my shop is not big enough to assemble all the parts at one time.

The table legs fold under for storage the wood is Sapele an African hardwood similar to mahogany very beautiful for indoor projects one of my favorites to work with.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/brianharnett/Wood%20Carvings/Outdoor%20furniture/IMG_2753.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/brianharnett/Wood%20Carvings/Outdoor%20furniture/IMG_2760.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/brianharnett/Wood%20Carvings/Outdoor%20furniture/IMG_2743.jpg
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/brianharnett/Wood%20Carvings/Outdoor%20furniture/IMG_2768.jpg

[bleeth]

Brian:
Very nice and clean. Am I right that you did the chair mortises on the bot? I would guess you rigged up a jig for the ones in the front of the back leg that either supported it up off the bed or simply had the upper back support sticking off the end of the table.
That looks like a nice curve in the seat too.

[gene]

Very nice . Where are they at?

[wberminio]

Nice work!
I just made some pool house doors out of sapelle.
You're right-nice material to work with.
At first they were to be painted/now after seeing them they will be stained

[Brian Harnett]

Brian:
Very nice and clean. Am I right that you did the chair mortises on the bot? I would guess you rigged up a jig for the ones in the front of the back leg that either supported it up off the bed or simply had the upper back support sticking off the end of the table.
That looks like a nice curve in the seat too.

Dave I use a pneumatic clamp setup at the end of my table I made a video of some of the process but do not have the leg shots but you can get the idea.

Gene, they are at the Grahamsville library a tiny town with a big library.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/brianharnett/Modified%20and%20Made%20Machines/th_chair.jpg (http://s98.photobucket.com/albums/l249/brianharnett/Modified%20and%20Made%20Machines/?action=view&current=chair.mp4)

[bleeth]

Nice Brian!-
Had some fun looking at your other flics and shots too.

[Brady Watson]

Looks great Brian. I also dig the vac setup. You'd probably get some more suction out of it if you swapped out the stock piston for a high compression one...Wiseco comes to mind.

-B

[Brian Harnett]

Brady I did think about milling the head, but it pulls 25-27 inches right now which is fine I needed it to pull volume and reasonable vacuum for templates on my pin router with porous woods like oak.

Back in the late seventies I got a go cart frame and lawnmower engine I milled the head with what I had on hand at age 14, a belt sander and sandpaper on a piece of glass to get it flat. that engine screamed until it threw the rod.

[Brady Watson]

...that engine screamed until it threw the rod.

Ha!!! I did the exact same thing on mine with a 3.5hp Tecumseh. It totally ripped with the governor out of it!...until the rod snapped :(

It taught me how to rebuild engines though & other amazing discoveries like coffee @ age 10 :D

-B

[bleeth]

Coffee at age 10???
NOW we know what happened!:D

[myxpykalix]

It's funny when you talk about go carts how similar many of our lives were growing up. A perfect look into how i grew up was just like the movie, "Stand by Me".
Life was simpler back then, we could be gone all day "giggin' frogs and fishing, playing baseball, climbing on these massive boulder piles, playing army and behaving ourselves and never worried about anyone bothering you. We have our 40 year reunion this year.....:eek:

So as not to let this thread veer too far off course, i really like the outdoor furniture and recall as a kid we had some outdoor furniture that I believe was made from a willow tree? Is that a good outdoor material? I know it sat outside for over 30 years thru rain and snow but we left it when we moved and it was still solid then.

[genek]

Willow is A strong HOWERVER it does rot.. But iT can hold up... Have seen green willow cut laying on the ground and it starts to grow roots.. Lol... Most of the bark would come off but it will last longer than most woods.

[Brian Harnett]

My experience with willow is that it would not be around in 30 years.

A lot of the older garden furniture was made out of redwood or cypress.

[myxpykalix]

i do recall that the back was made of thick branches that were bent in a curve and whatever it was, it was there in the 50's when we moved there and it was still there without rot in the 80's. I know it wasn't redwood. It was more a washed out light colored wood. It didn't have a bark, it was either shaved off or was some species that didn't have a thick bark.