Some slat back chairs or some Windsor chairs can be turned upside down and used as the basis for a pack frame. This is usually when a family is moving to the frontier and don't want to leave all the old family material goods behind.
Camp Chairs
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If my memory serves me the plans I have it takes around a 11" wide board to make the curved legs. The waste of wood is not an issue for me. I use the scraps for kindling or for smoking meat.
They do make you sit farther back and can be a little more difficult for getting up.
I did not know that they were supposed to nest together when I made mine, and I make a mistake and mine wont nest together.
Fleener
They do make you sit farther back and can be a little more difficult for getting up.
I did not know that they were supposed to nest together when I made mine, and I make a mistake and mine wont nest together.
Fleener
Historically Correct or Period Correct :hatsoff:
Period Correct or PC usually deals with when an article was in existence.
For instance, the percussion ignition system wasn't a real success and available to the general public until about 1816. It didn't really catch on until around 1820-1830 so, if someone was wearing a American Revolutionary War outfit and carrying a percussion rifle the rifle would not be PC.
Another example to carry things to the extreme is a Phillips head screw.
The Phillips head screw wasn't invented until 1932 and Cadillac was the first company to use them so, if one was on a gun made before that year or a muzzleloading rifle (real or replica) it would not be PC.
Historically Correct or HC is a bit harder to explain.
I use the term to describe items that were actually used at some event that is being reinacted.
For instance, although fireplace andiron's were common before the French Indian War began, people reinacting the battle at Washington's "Fort Necessary" with andirons sitting alongside the campfires would be making a HC mistake.
In other words, although something existed, it also must have been present at the time and place to be Historically Correct.
(OK reinactors, have at me.
)
For instance, the percussion ignition system wasn't a real success and available to the general public until about 1816. It didn't really catch on until around 1820-1830 so, if someone was wearing a American Revolutionary War outfit and carrying a percussion rifle the rifle would not be PC.
Another example to carry things to the extreme is a Phillips head screw.
The Phillips head screw wasn't invented until 1932 and Cadillac was the first company to use them so, if one was on a gun made before that year or a muzzleloading rifle (real or replica) it would not be PC.
Historically Correct or HC is a bit harder to explain.
I use the term to describe items that were actually used at some event that is being reinacted.
For instance, although fireplace andiron's were common before the French Indian War began, people reinacting the battle at Washington's "Fort Necessary" with andirons sitting alongside the campfires would be making a HC mistake.
In other words, although something existed, it also must have been present at the time and place to be Historically Correct.
(OK reinactors, have at me.
)
kansas_volunteer
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Black Hand said:
If a guy made the flat pack chair with stripped maple wood, and finished like a gunstock, then made the seat and back with natural color hemp canvas he just might be able to claim his handiwork authentic.
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The use of period materials and finishes to make a modern chair still results in a modern chair....
Hc pc should be our goal. And if your going to invest the time to make a chair out of real nice material why not make it correct for the time... it doesn’t require any more effort.
However a counter point to that is we live in this modren world. You won’t see slit trenches, or six men sharing a wedge tent. You won’t see people dressing outside of their tent.
Our camps have more candle lanterns, more forks and plates, more tooth brushes and glasses then one would see then.
However a counter point to that is we live in this modren world. You won’t see slit trenches, or six men sharing a wedge tent. You won’t see people dressing outside of their tent.
Our camps have more candle lanterns, more forks and plates, more tooth brushes and glasses then one would see then.
tenngun said:
We also see more white women, children and older people than "then". Rarely see mules, Indian ponies, travois, etc. I did see an ox drawn large sled at ronny once.
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I keep going back to Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 in the original French drawings of two folding chairs in this link:
http://www.livinghistoryshop.com/category/18th-century-furniture/
It seems to me in the first two Fig.'s that it is showing the frame of a folding stool with a back and it is just showing the frame without the fabric or leather covered seat?
It also seems to me whoever drew the first four figures of the two folding stool/chair was not an actual woodworker? This because unless there is some kind of metal strap support, the back side pieces would not hold up to the stress of someone sitting in the chair?
It seems to me that if the folding chair was made of wood, then it would more likely have side pieces for the back like the one shown in the bottom of this link?
http://vcr-inc.com/wp/
BTW, I am not affiliated with either woodworker I linked above.
Gus
It seems to me in the first two Fig.'s that it is showing the frame of a folding stool with a back and it is just showing the frame without the fabric or leather covered seat?
It also seems to me whoever drew the first four figures of the two folding stool/chair was not an actual woodworker? This because unless there is some kind of metal strap support, the back side pieces would not hold up to the stress of someone sitting in the chair?
It seems to me that if the folding chair was made of wood, then it would more likely have side pieces for the back like the one shown in the bottom of this link?
http://vcr-inc.com/wp/
BTW, I am not affiliated with either woodworker I linked above.
Gus
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