Instant Furniture

Step 8 Many-Stick Folding Chair

It's very comfortable and has a nice flexible feeling to it.
It's held together with four threaded rods with nuts and washers on the ends.

Seen at New Hope Village near Guatemala City.

According to the photo albums in the dining room, someone built this chair early during the construction of the project from scrapwood.

Comments

[pdub77]

What is this type of chair called? I would really like to research it a bit.

[d_oliver]

Do you have a list of materials? measurements?

[liruke]

You start with three six foot 2x4s ( I used pressure treated pine), ripped into nine equal 1 1/2 x 1 1/8 pieces. By judicious measuring, this should yield the following: Seat: (A) 6 pieces 15" long ) each piece has two 1/4" holes (B) 2 pieces 35" long ) drilled in the center of the wider side.Measure from the same end: 1st hole 1 1/2"; 2nd hole 12". (C) 9 pieces 9 5/8" long: Two holes, 1 1/2" from each end. Back: (D) 4 pieces 31 1/2" long) Each piece has two holes, at (E) 2 pieces 29" long ) 1 1/2" and 25" measured (F) 2 pieces 42" long ) from the same end. All held together with 9 gauge galvanized wire.. Align seat pieces as : A-A-B-A-A-B-A-A and hold together loosely at top with a length of wire through the upper (1 1/2" holes); At the lower (12")holes, intersperse each piece with a length of C. That is: C-A-C-A-C-B-C-A-C-A-C-B-C-A-C-A-C. Wire and set aside. Align back pieces in the order F-D-E-D-D-E-D-F, and again hold together loosely with a wire through the holes which are 1 1/2 from the end. Now marry the two parts by threading wire through the remaining holes, with the C pieces acting as the connectors. The new joint should have the configuration: C-F-C-D-C-E-C-D-C-D-C-E-C-D-C-F-C. Draw all wires tight, cut off and secure ends somehow (I threaded them and used cap nuts). Now take it all apart, sand as appropriate, finish as desired and reassemble. Note that this darn things folds too!

[zanne101]

Great project.
Could you explain further, or give a photo, of what you used and how to finish off the wires?
It's probably a "DUH!", but right now I don't know how to do this.
Thanks

[zanne101]

I thought I should expand on my confusion -it's with your statement "It's held together with four threaded rods with nuts and washers on the ends', but later on you say it's all held together with 9 gauge wire.
I must be missing something. :-}

[clarei]

Thank you so much for sharing. It is a beautiful chair. Where could I find the specs for this chair? I would like to know how high off the floor the seat is and the instructions can be revised to make it a little taller. Although very comfortable, the pictures seem to show an extgremely low chair. Thank you! cr

[Turnpike7a]

i have one of these chairs, everyone in my family fights over who gets to sit in it

[forced_to_make_an_account]

Is there a picture of the chair folded up?

[12much]

There's one on the deck from a houseboat along the way walking from trainstation Amsterdam, Holland to Sience Center NEMO. I love the simplicty.

[Wade Tarzia]

Oh! Oh! That's the one I had! I spent all my spare time reading for PhD quals for a year straight sitting in that chair; I mourn it daily. Highly recommended chair, everyone must get have one of these, and it folds flat and stores easily.