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panhard
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Reged: 01/20/08
Posts: 2535
Loc: Markham Ont.
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By the way...look at that picture of the lybar chair.
See how the wood says scrap on it? I was surprised that bottom of the bottom wood was good enough to build a chair. I dropped the lybar chair in that photo down a flight of stairs just for the heck of it, and it didn't even get bashed up!
There are three screws holding each wooden plank to the other. There was no wood cement or gorilla glue used on the lybar chair, its 100% screws.
Amazing how strong garbage wood can be eh?
By the way im 230 pounds, 6'0" in case you were wondering how much these chairs hold up. That is why the lybar chair really impresses me, I put ALL my weight on it and it doesn't even budge. I can jump up and down on it.
Brooklyn that denver chair you made is a beautiful chair. It is too pretty to take out and get dirty. From the photos it looks like a showroom piece,very well done. 
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stefanj
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Reged: 11/15/07
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Loc: Western New York State
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THe Lybar chair is great- I never thought of 2x4s- I was search the garage for some 1x5s to build mine- GOnna grab some 2x4 scrap on the way home (or even better- some 2x6- the local building truss company always has some 2x6 scrap in the "free wood" piles!)
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Brooklyn
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 07/24/08
Posts: 870
Loc: Central New Jersey
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Yea i had some help with the denver chair, professional type help from people in my astronomy club! 
Youre right, by comparison the Lybar chair looks like the older uglier cousin. 
For the lybar chair, i changed the original design...
The seating heights are 12", 20", 24" as you can see from each of the 3 pictures. The original lybar chair was only 12, 16, 20. I wanted an extra 4"
Also, note the vertical added support column added in the middle. I was a little scared of sitting on what is basically a simple bookshelf, but oh my god i cant believe how strong this structure is.
I didn't even buy the scrap wood that was made into the lybar, i found it all in my garage! it was leftovers from the contractors that worked on my house. Cool eh?
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Burnspot
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Reged: 09/09/08
Posts: 27
Loc: Rocky Mount, NC
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Great looking chair! I picked up the plans to the original Denver chair and plan to take a crack at it, although I'm thinking about making it a bit taller. I haven't worked with wood since high school shop class back in the '80's, but it looks pretty manageable, lol.
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