With the advent of new materials for the manufacture of furniture, plywood does not cease to be relevant. For many home masters, such a manufacturing technology is a saving, while for other consumers it is an opportunity to realize their creative skills. Handmade products are in fashion today. This should include chairs made of plywood, with your own hands and you can make them.
Preparation of tool materials
Before starting work, you should prepare:
- electric jigsaw;
- self-tapping screws;
- construction square;
- sand paper;
- drill / driver;
- wood glue;
- roulette wheel;
- pencil;
- plywood.
The choice of material should be taken seriously, because the supporting elements must be strong in order to withstand a certain weight. In the stores today there are many types of plywood, you will only need to choose the appropriate thickness. The work will be associated with the transfer of the drawing to the sheet, as well as cutting out the future design.
Component manufacturing
If you decide to make a chair of plywood yourself, you need to prepare a drawing by drawing it by hand. Sometimes patterns are made on paper in A0 format. In this case, you can contact the printing house. As soon as the drawing is transferred to plywood, you should pick up an electric jigsaw to start cutting out the elements. It is important to observe the angle when cutting the back legs of the chair. It should be 190Λ.
After preparing all the elements, you need to make the grooves in the legs for the spiked joints that are on the back, coronets and drawers. The latter are bars connecting the legs to each other. Tsars are necessary for the reliability of the seat, it is they who form its basis. Nipples connect the legs and are used to increase strength and stability. They are located below the king.
When making a chair out of plywood with your own hands, you will have to cut out the elements and polish the places of cuts and slots in order to remove splinters and burrs. If there is no suitable tool available, you can use sandpaper, however, the process will take some time, but as a result you will get a pretty good result.
Chair assembly
During the final assembly of the chair, all the elements should be folded together without fastening them. It is important to make sure at this stage that all workpieces are completed and fitted correctly. If everything is fine, you can proceed with the assembly. The hind legs will be the first to go, which should be interconnected with the seams and the czars.
Previously, the joints should be smeared with carpentry glue, applying it to the spikes and grooves. The glue is left to dry. In order to provide greater reliability, self-tapping screws can be used. If the glue is good, then mechanical fastening is not necessary.
Assembling a plywood chair with your own hands, at the next stage you can assemble the front legs by connecting them with a jerk and a drawer. Joints are also glued. There is another option in which the stitches are installed between the back and front legs, and the connection in this case occurs with the third stitch. This method is reliable.
The glue should be allowed to dry and fasten the front legs with the remaining two stitches, gluing all the joints. Until the composition dries, with the help of a square, you need to set the front legs relative to the pedicles and the drawer at a right angle. The rear legs are set at an angle of 80 Λ.
Now you can try on the seat. If it rests evenly, it is mounted on self-tapping screws. Previously, holes are drilled under them so that the plywood does not burst. The seat can be soft for comfort. To do this, a foam rubber square with a thickness of 20 mm is placed on it and fitted with a skin substitute. The material should be fixed to the bottom of the seat with a stapler. If desired, the same procedure can be carried out with the back.
Finish
You can make do-it-yourself drawings for a chair made of plywood. If you cannot do this yourself, you should borrow them from the article. When the piece of furniture is ready, you can begin to finish. Everything will depend on your preference. As a rule, the chair is covered with transparent varnish in 2 layers. This approach is most common.
You can use wood stain to make the product darker. The intensity of the shade can be adjusted by the number of layers. Work is carried out in a room with ventilation, because the evaporation of paints and varnishes can adversely affect health. After the varnish has dried, the felt squares need to be strengthened on the lower end parts of the legs. This will eliminate scratches on the floor when moving the chair.
Folding chair
You can make a folding chair from plywood with your own hands. To do this, prepare one sheet of material, a bar for legs, foam rubber and decorative upholstery. The beam should have a cross section of 40 x 60 cm. Foam rubber must have a square shape with a side of 50 cm. Furniture fabric or leatherette can act as decorative upholstery.
The timber should be well dried and carefully sanded. Plywood is best used from birch, as it is more durable and easier to process. It is optimized for painting and finishing in a variety of ways.
Tool preparation
When preparing a tool kit, you must take care of the availability of:
- chisels;
- jigsaw;
- a hammer;
- screwdrivers;
- skins;
- stapler with staples.
The skin can be replaced with a grinder. It is good if the master will have a conductor for assembling furniture. It will allow you to drill holes for fasteners, thanks to this the product will be assembled efficiently.
More about preparation
If you want to make a folding chair out of plywood with your own hands, you will need to depict the details of the product on a sheet of whatman paper and cut them out. The rear legs will have a height of 80 cm. To fasten the structure, 4 strips of 40 cm will be required, and the two front legs will have a length of 40 cm. Using the same technology, a children's chair is made of plywood with your own hands, only the length of the legs needs to be made smaller. The seat has the following dimensions: 36 x 40 cm. To strengthen the structure you will need trims. The back should have the following dimensions: 30 x 45 cm.
Details
For the rear legs you need to cut two beams. To fasten the slats with an indent of 20 cm from the base, it is necessary to cut holes. To do this, the legs are folded in a row so that it becomes possible to outline the boundaries of the grooves. The holes on both sides of the legs are hollowed out with a hammer and chisel. It is necessary to go deeper by 20 mm.
On the side of the beam, the holes should be horizontal. The planks should be well cleaned from wood dust, otherwise they will not go into the grooves. In order to make the front legs, you should cut two beams. On top of the front legs you need to measure 15 mm. With the help of a file and a chisel, thorns are cut out for fastening to the base of the chair seat. From the timber, the strips should be made for strength. Spikes cut into them, which will be inserted into the grooves of the knife.
The beam, which formed the basis of the legs and planks, should be treated with sandpaper, because during operation burrs could form. The back is cut with a jigsaw. To do this on plywood, you need to draw a detail on a paper template. If you are thinking about how to make a chair out of plywood with your own hands, you should act on technology. It involves the use of a curved back.
To create such an element, the material is soaked in water. It should have a temperature of 60 Β° C. The workpiece is aged for about 4 hours. After that, the back can be given the desired shape, fixed with a tourniquet until dry. The seat is cut out of plywood for a pattern. Two bars will need to be prepared from the timber in order to strengthen the structure.
Assembly
From the manufactured parts you can assemble a chair. First you need to work on the base. It will consist of strips and 4 legs. Spikes on planks are treated with furniture glue. They are inserted into the grooves on the legs. Success in the assembly issue will depend on how accurately the parts were strengthened and whether the glue was chosen correctly. Now you can start assembling the frame for the seat from 4 strips. They are pre-lubricated with glue. The base at the edges is smeared with glue and fixed to the frame. The design can also be strengthened with self-tapping screws.
Construction works
Having examined the photo of chairs made of plywood, you can make such furniture with your own hands. At the final stage, you need to cut the foam to fit the seat and strengthen it to the base. Then a cover of upholstery fabric or leatherette crashes. It should be fastened to the frame with a stapler, turning the edges so that the grooves remain free.
The appearance of the chair at this stage is still in question, because much will depend on the upholstery. It is important to decide which one is right for your product. There are spikes on the front legs that must be glued to fit into the grooves. The rear legs are fastened to the seat with screws, which should be screwed into the end of the frame.