Here are 2 Rustic reclaimed wood bungie / rubber hose or whatever strechable rope / hose / bungie you can find that will support a big boned Walmart shopper and still be comfortable, chairs. The design was taken from an instructable plan from the instructable website which was taken from the book ‘PlyDesign: 73 Distinctive DIY Projects in Plywood (and other sheet goods)’. The chair plan from that book was designed by Wil Holman. Maybe from Mother Earth website. It might be an offshoot of the lanyard chair or loom chair. But, you know, I really don’t have time to do all the research. Anyway the red one looks just like the on from the forementioned places. The other one is a variation on the same idea. When it comes to comfort… Comfort is a relative term, is it not? However, both are pleasing to the eye, are they not? The wooden chairs were made from reclaimed, recycled and repurposed wood. I used a ‘discount’ rubber hose from the Harbor Freight store. The quality of the stuff that they sell can be somewhat subpar. This ‘subpar-ness’ of the “rubber-like” hose has translated into a slightly less than ideal level of comfort. The original chair plan calls for a recycled rubber hose that you clean. I imagine you should really, really clean a used air hose before you use it in your chair. To acquire this used air hose for this wood bungie chair, you need to persuade a mechanic to give you one that is broken. Which means he/she would have to have a broken one on hand. The other option would be to go “dumpster diving” behind auto mechanic shops. Both options seem incredably un-appealing to me. So, as you can see, my decision to buy one at Harbor Freight tool store was a “no brainer”. The other wood chair was made using clear flexible water piping bought at one of the big box hardware stores. The really cool pillows were made by Grandma Luthin.
