Several times when the family got together my brother-in-law said he had some lumber he had been saving and I would be interested in looking at it so one weekend I met him at his house and he led me to a small shed which he had stakes of lumber.  After looking it over I selected two good sized cedar planks that were about two inches thick and gave my brother-in-law a modest sum for them.  The planks had voids and holes in about 25% of the boards.  I considered making some type of table with them which I would had filled in the voids with plastic resin but after having done that with the trestle table, I decided instead to make a pair of patio chairs. It took a lot of careful layout but I was able to get enough good boards to make two chairs.

The rough cut cedar planks

Styles and Rails for the chairs with the mortis and tennons all cut.

Test Assembly

Final Chairs without cushions

Test Assembly

Updated: 07-03-2023