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   patternmaker | Mar 01, 2004 05:38pm | #1

   I have built 6 deck chairs from plans in the July 1985 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine.

   If you will e`mail me an address,I will copy them and send them along. No charge.

   Work safely ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬PAT¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

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   EdHarrison | Mar 02, 2004 07:25am | #3

   Thank you. THis has been knocking around in the back of my mind, too - to build some of these chairs. I could have sworn I saw the plans in some source that was published in the 1990s as well, but I will go get this from my local library.

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   patternmaker | Mar 02, 2004 07:31am | #4

   Ed: If you can find your way to the Gallery in the "old forum" there is a photo of one of my chairs.

   Work safely ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬PAT¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

   Edited 3/1/2004 11:37:22 PM ET by Pat

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   harry11733 | Mar 02, 2004 04:33pm | #7

   Hi

   How do you get to the old forum. I am also thinking of making some of these chairs.

   David

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   patternmaker | Mar 02, 2004 05:56pm | #9

   I dunno I thought that someone more knowledgeable than me might reply.

   Work safely ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬PAT¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

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   steve5 | Mar 02, 2004 09:28am | #5

   THANKS PAT!!

   MY ADDRESS [email protected]

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   tommy2 | Mar 02, 2004 03:00pm | #6

   read your article on the chairs. if you can please send me the plans for them. my e-mail address is [email protected] i would appreciate them.

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   patternmaker | Mar 02, 2004 08:20pm | #11

   I have just sent the copy of the chair plans to Steve in South Africa, by snail mail.

   If he has the scanning equipment,which I don`t have,mebby he will share with you.

   Work safely ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬PAT¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

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   rognick | Jul 24, 2006 06:01am | #13

   I'm intereste in titanic (steamer) chair plans. Can you e-mail a set to me? Thanks.

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   byhammerandhand | Jul 25, 2006 05:36am | #15

   It was Popular Woodworking that had Titanic deck chair plans.

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   rognick | Jul 25, 2006 06:16am | #16

   Thanks much.  I have a listing from the Popular Woodworking website for a 2001 issue containing such plans.  Cost, a modest $7.00, but the listing gives you no clue as to what the final product looks like, whether wood bending is involved and how much hardware is needed.  The New Yankee Workshop listing for their plans tells you to buy $89.00 worth of hardware from Rockler; that, plus the cost of the wood will put you close to what you can buy a completed chair for from Amazon.  I've re-checked the response here from pat to knobby dated 3/1/2004 9:38 am and it definitely lists the July 1985 issue of Popular Mechanics.<!----><!----><!---->

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   John_D | Jul 26, 2006 12:37am | #17

   I've only made a few things, but they all cost me more than cheapo items from Ikea or WalMart.  The consolation is, the things I make tend to be exactly what I want, with materials and workmanship that appeal to me.My goal is for my work to outlast me.  Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.

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   douglas2cats | Jul 26, 2006 12:53am | #18

   I got lucky on the Rockler hardware kits. They happened to be having a sale on them when I decided to build the NYW chairs. I think I paid $49 ea for them or something like that. The $89 might have made me rethink but I'd already bought the NYW plans without being aware of the Rockler kit necessity or cost. It is pretty steep, but all the stuff is heavy solid brass for the bracketry so the cost starts to become understandable. I ended up building mine from Ipe instead of Teak which saved a bunch of money, although it's a lot tougher stuff to work. Weightwise, a shipfull of Ipe chairs would have caused the Titanic to sink before it got out of the harbor. An awful lot of lives would have been saved.:-)If you build it he will come.

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   Steinmetz | Mar 01, 2004 09:33pm | #2

   Years ago, my Stevadore BIL gave me about 60 of the oval teak 'Slats' from broken discarded deck chairs he picked up at a pier in Manhattan.

    As I recall, I made tent pegs, hammer and chisel handles,  a rope ladder, (For the kids)  and a seat for my GMC van. Alas, it's all gone now.  I'd be interested to see if those old plans utilized oval slats too. Stein.

   
   

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   Edited 3/1/2004 1:38:01 PM ET by steinmetz

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   badoyn | Mar 02, 2004 05:47pm | #8

   I believe that the New Yankee Workshop has plans for these chairs.

   Michael

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   Dan019 | Mar 02, 2004 06:27pm | #10

   It aint Titanic but it's free. Adirondak chair plans. All the author asks is that you refer to it as "Jakes Chair" if you further desseminate his plans.

   Dan019

   
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   Steinmetz | Mar 03, 2004 07:12am | #12

   Here's a start. Print and enlarge photo on to graph paper and work from there. Stein. 

   http://www.creative-woodwork.net/cwl_dorunda_lounger.htm&nbsp;

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   cadiddlehopper | Jul 25, 2006 04:53am | #14

   A WW magazine had such plans a short time (within 10 years) ago. Try Woodsmith & American Woodworker. It might have been Popular Woodworking, but I don't think so.

   Cadiddlehopper

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   debichicks | May 31, 2016 09:43am | #19

   Titanic deck chair plans

   can you please email me the plans

   [email protected]