One last question about Adirondack chairs....

[Michael Costa]

.... then I'll drop it (promise).

I'm very curious to know how long it would take some experienced and well seasoned woodworker to make just 1 Adirondack chair if you had a pattern to use and S2S lumber on hand. Staining as well.

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[Michael Costa]

Note... the pattern would be on your computer. You don't have hardboard templates.

[Wayne Lomman]

Its a bit of a loaded question... 1 would take a day start to finish in my home workshop, 10 would take 3 days. 8 hour days are assumed.

Permission granted to freely criticise my estimate. I'm never going to put it to the test as this style of chair is not for the disabled people in my house but I would expect to achieve the targets. Staining is done last after assembly. Cheers

[Nick Decker]

I don't know about building one, but at my age if I sat in one, it'd take the rest of the day to get back out of it.

[Michael Costa]

One 8 hour day start to finish? Wow, I think it took me 10 times that long. But it was my first chair.

I put the chair together first to make sure everything fit correctly, then took it apart and stained each piece then put it back together. Since the second chair was identical to the first, I stained it before putting it together.

[Kurt Swanson]

I built 5 adirondack chairs a few years ago. Took me right around 30 hours total. Building them assembly line style saved a bunch of time. I made them out
of Ipe, so no staining or painting. But, boy are they heavy... 70 lbs each!

[Michael Costa]

Mine came in at 25lbs each.

[Art Mann]

I built two at a time and it took about 2 days, excluding glue and finish cure time. That included some milling of rough cut Cypress. I already had 3/16 inch Masonite patterns for all the curved pieces.