When working on a smaller project such as the Adirondack chairs I work hard to use the least amount of wood possible. This doesn’t mean I scrimp on how much material I use, but it means that I try and use as much of a length of board as possible. For example, let’s say I am making a single chair and table. This requires lengths of 1x6 in 35, 35, 28, 28, 27, 18, 18, 17, 17, 16, and 16 inches. To use as much lumber as possible I will group the cut lengths to get as close to a stand length of board (10’, 12’) as possible. So in this case I get two 1”x6”x12’ (12’-144”) boards and lay out the cut pattern thusly: 35, 35, 28, 28, 16 = 142” and 22, 27, 16, 17, 17, 18, 18 = 135”. This leaves me with 2 and 9 inches of scrap.
Of course, I take into account the wood grain and color when laying out my cut patterns. I want my arm rests to look like they came from the same piece of wood so I group those together. When there are pieces that aren’t important visually I can mix them across the various lengths of the dimensional lumber.
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