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DIY Bent Plywood Lounge Chair
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9 sheets
1/8” Plywood
3/4 of a gallon
Gorilla Wood Glue
2 sheets
3/4” MDF
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Draw the design on cardboard with a sharpie
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Cut out the shapes with a knife
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Trace those shapes onto 3/4” thick MDF
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Cut the MDF with a jigsaw
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Use 2x6s to space MDF 12” apart
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Cut strips of 1/8” plywood 18” wide and then do kerf cuts 1/16” deep about every 1/2”
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This let’s you make the plywood more flexible in specify places
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You can now glue multiple layers of plywood together and clamp them between the MDF forms
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I glued 2-3 layers of plywood on at a time
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And slowly laminated the chair together
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I took the chair out of the mold
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And sanded down the edges
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I sealed it with water based polyurethane and tested it out!
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