INTRODUCING THE PLASTIC MAC...

I've been working on a design for a chair made from local and re-used materials for ages... here at last is the MK3 version.

The Plastic Mac in all it's glory - spot the slight Charles Rennie influence

It's made from willow poles from the farm, a reclaimed pallet that happened to be made from some sort of tropical hardwood, some reclaimed ash, also a plastic sheet from recycled bottle tops (thank you Craig Smith of St John's School tech department) and reclaimed bike inner tubes (thank you Mark Woods of the Bike Station).It's been interesting designing it so it can be made just with what's available to hand and also using just simple hand tools. The only tricky bit has been jointing the frame to the back uprights... will work on that for MK4...

me and my chair...

recycled bottle tops for the guitar-influenced head-piece

very comfy inner-tube seat

some of the joints are simple enough

only tricky bit is the back leg joint to the frame

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