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Re Adirondack Chair Project (thingstobuild.com version)
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I am a colonel in the United States Air Force Medical Service and am
stationed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida as the medical group
commander.
In December 2009, I left Tampa for a deployment to Joint Base
Balad, Iraq.
My first real deployment in 24 years of service in the Air
Force.
It hit home in mid-December that I was leaving for Iraq when I had
to pack away my work shop at the house.
I have been a serious woodworker
since 1999. My forte is mostly clocks, shadow boxes and pens, but I'm
willing to venture outside my comfort zone.
When I arrived at my deployed location, I was please to find out that there
was an expeditionary (aka austere) self-help shop on the installation and in
fact it was located right around the corner from the hospital I would be
working in.
After establishing where my office was located and seeing each
of the executive offices on the south side had patios, I decided one or more
Adirondack chairs would be a nice addition to the space.
After "Googling" Adirondack Chairs on the net, I reviewed several options
that popped up until I settled on the design I found on Thingstobuild.com.
Editors note: www.thingstobuild.com is a subsidiary of www.buildeazy.com
I printed the design and then contacted the self-help shop to gain access
for my project.
I was told by the enlisted manager that I was welcome to
come over, get safety certified and have access to the shop to build the
chairs. He explained that I could make the chairs out of any material I
wanted as long as it was pine. Yes, the only building material in this
expeditionary self-help shop was pine.
I told him my preference then would
be to make them out of pine.
Over the next three Sunday mornings, I was able to produce three of the
chairs with only minor modification from the original design (pictures
attached).
The chairs have been a big hit and they are in fact much more
comfortable than I had anticipated.
Even the Air Force Surgeon General who
was visiting thought they were fantastic.
This project was a great way to get my woodworking fix while spending six
months 7,000 miles away from family and home.
My first project when I get
settled in back in Tampa, FL will be to make some not-so-expeditionary
Adirondack chairs for my wife and me.
Thank you very much for making these
designs available.
DENNIS L. BEATTY, Col, USAF, MSC
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