Does anyone dabble in woodworking here? I was raised around it my whole life but never took to it as a trade. My grandfather was a carpenter and my dad is a master carpenter as well. I've inhaled enough sawdust over my life that I think something happened recently.
My wife and I landscaped part of our backyard. We talked about buying some adirondack chairs to put back there on the peastone. I looked around a bit and noticed a disturbing trend. Adirondack chairs are not cheap! At least the nice, well-built ones. So I got a bug up my butt to build a set. My wife thought I was crazy seeing that I have never built anything before from wood.(well I used to do some construction-type woodworking when I was a teenager, but not much).
After I finished the first chair, I decided to nix the other chair and build an adirondack-style chaise lounge(currently in progress - waiting for the weather to cool down). This chair will be unique in that I am attempting to design something that has never been done before with this type of lounger. I don't want to give it away just yet, but I will post the pics when I am done. Hopefully it will turn out how I imagine and will be completely functional. Functional is the KEY word here.
BTW, both of these chairs were created in my head. I just borrowed designs I liked from other chairs and put them together how I wanted it to look. My wife now says she'll think about keeping me around seeing that I'm so handy. But on the other hand, she is already coming up with other projects that she wants me to build. Oooooga
Here is the first completed chair: