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Thank you for your nice words and the insight into your Adirondack-chair-project.
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Did you use a spokeshave with a flat or rounded sole? A rounded makes more sense to me, but I have some problems to use and handle it properly.
I wanted to use fir or larch for the chair, but I cannot find nice wood. The wood, that comes in the right, thin thickness, is either full of dead knots or full of resindrops. The nicer wood is lots thicker and I hesitate to rip everything to the right thickness.
Maybe I just use pine or spruce and use some outdoor finish/ paint to keep it from rotting too fast.
Pallet wood here in Germany is mostly made from spruce, so that might work, if it worked out good with your chair. It is nice, if you can get pallet wood for free.
They also sell pallets in those DIY markets for around 16€ to 18€ a piece, which would be way to expensive if you compare it with the price of regular spruce.
I hope, that I can “finish” my box this weekend. I got some shellac flakes, alcohol and furniture wax. I am lacking a proper brush still though.