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Commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
I like these chairs, but they're not terribly comfortable: the dimensions are a little smaller than you might expect, and the seat is pretty low. And if you wanted to make one it wouldn't be a bad idea to put...
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Despite the lousy and condescending advice here, Yoffe is still one of the only decent things about Slate. Imagine if they assigned the advice column to Kaus, Hitchens, or Saletan ("Call the cops on the friend, shoot the s-i-l, give...
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Commented on Windows users 20% more interested in God than Mac users
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NeonCat commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
Most pallets that I have seen are in pretty bad condition. They're usually made of the cheapest wood available and are frequently knotted, warped, cracked, etc. Yes, you can make furniture, even nice furniture, from them, but it will take you a long time and a lot of sanding and/or machining....
nogo commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
There is a book describing how to do exactly that: "How to Construct Rietveld Furniture" http://www.amazon.com/How-Construct-Rietveld-Furniture-Dutch/dp/9068682806...
freshyill commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
You can make nice furniture out of just about any wood, but you won't make something comparable to this, with large planks for back, side, etc., out of raw pallets. The pieces are usually just too small and thin for this. Now, you could very easily do something similar, but I think the technique would be a lot more involved, as you would have to plane the wood and then glue the pieces together to make larger parts. In the end it might be very very nice, but it would be a lot more involved than this looks....
bcsizemo commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
$415 seems pricey, even for something that looks like it came from the Arts and Crafts movement. I own a fair amount of Stickley furniture, which is by no means cheap, but it is solid oak or cherry, built in traditional ways, and designed to last well into my grandkids lifetime. The only nails it might have would be to hold the backing on a cabinet... And it certainly doesn't come in "colors"......
MikeP commented on Chairs made from crates that are better than the chairs shipped in the crates
I can tell you from hard experience that pallets are built out of the cheapest possible wood, and are assembled with nails that are ridiculously difficult to pull out. The designer wanted "pallet wood", so I spent the better part of a day pulling three pallets apart. It was a disaster. I've built lots of shipping crates and those were mostly 2x8s, nothing fancy and plentiful in lots of other places than just crates. (Goods that are crated in S.E. Asia are a different story though, as the cheapest wood available there is still an exotic rainforest wood in the...

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