The
Making of Our Adirondack Chair
Let's
start off with where we come to our pricing structure.
We buy our lumber as orders come in. We build the chairs as
the orders come in. In all, we have 60% in cost, and
maybe 40% in profit per set bought.
So in
all reality, with the time it takes to make a set of our
adirondack chairs, and
get it shipped out, this unbelievable hand crafted pieces
of art nets us less than $15 an hour.
If we didn't enjoy making them so much,
we wouldn't bother at
all. But we all have to do something we like, or survival
would be hell. What would be the sense.
You
will see all over the place over and over again, we use
Pressure Treated Southern Yellow Pine Lumber to build
our chairs. It's the most cost effective way to build
such an intricately made chair. Expensive wood such and
cedar or mahogany would run the cost of our chairs up and
over $500.00 per chair made.
Except
for our legs and back supports, the entire chair starts
out as 1" x 6" wood. We take these boards and
rip them down to meet the sizes of the seats and the
back.
For the
legs we use 2" x 6" Top Choice
boards. This by far ensures the longevity of the part
that holds the chair together.
Every piece
of the chair is first cut out, then ran through a router
table with a round over bit. After the pieces have been
through the router, we countersink all wholes that will make up
the chairs fixture.
Once
the chair is complete, we go over the entire surface with
an orbital sander. Your chair will have the finest,
smoothest surface that can come from treated or
untreated pine lumber.
We have
been making these chairs for 10 years, we can't
tell you how many we've made, but, we can tell you,
we've
never had a set returned.
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