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Last week I promised to discuss the influence of Chuck Taylor shoes on my chair design. However, I need to take a short break from my rocker to create a bench for a block-improvement effort in the Dayton’s Bluff Community.

In this post, I will describe the bench design and invite you to help build it! Interested? Shoot me an email at slsolarz@gmail.com!
All participants will learn how to solvent weld PVC. The skill is used to build many exciting maker projects from potato launchers to musical instruments like the ones played by the Blue Man Group. In fact, the bench that we build can be used both for rest and to play a few tunes while waiting for the bus!

To make construction easier, I designed the bench in 6 sections. Each section is 39 inches long and 19 inches wide. Five of the sections are identical (just oriented differently) and one section is unique. Once I have all of the sections on site, I will bolt 3 pipes from each section to 3 pipes in an adjacent section.

The design uses PVC pipes of 5 different lengths with the longest pipes serving as the legs of the bench. Standard bench height is 18 inches and each section of the bench has four 18 inch-long pipes. Placement of these bench legs will be important for balance and stability.

Please contact me at slsolarz@gmail.com to help build a bench for a better block in the Dayton’s Bluff community!
This will be super fun! Build starts Saturday, July 13.
Cool project, but holy crap that’s a long post, please use the “more” option in WordPress so as not to “Bogart” the whole blog.