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Making a simple solid sofa with your own hands in a home workshop. Project and materials. Part 1

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This sofa will soon be 6 years old. I made it for my mother and during this time it proved to be a convenient and reliable piece of furniture.

Mom's sofa. Photo by the author
Mom's sofa. Photo by the author
Mom's sofa. Photo by the author

Next, there will be a number of publications along with video clips, in which I will tell you in detail about the steps of making this sofa.

In the manufacturing process, many homemade gadgets were used.

First, I made a detailed project using SketchUp.

Sofa project. Photo by the author
Sofa project. Photo by the author

The construction of the base has been developed taking into account the possible manufacture of the chair. To do this, it is enough to change the length of the parts that connect the armrests.

Resizing the sofa in SketchUp. Photo by the author
Resizing the sofa in SketchUp. Photo by the author

At that time, I had some stock of 25 mm edged boards, so I designed a sofa from this board taking into account.

Sofa assembly diagram. Photo by the author
Sofa assembly diagram. Photo by the author
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At the end of the article there will be a link to the drawings for manufacturing, including the model for SketchUp and detailing.

Boards for making a sofa. Photo by the author
Boards for making a sofa. Photo by the author

These are the boards I used to make this sofa.

Six years ago, my home workshop was just being formed and I was actively using homemade devices.

I planed the boards on a homemade planer.

The first version of a homemade planer based on an electric plane. Photo by the author
The first version of a homemade planer based on an electric plane. Photo by the author

Instead of a jointer, I used a circular device.

Jointing the edge of the workpieces. Photo by the author
Jointing the edge of the workpieces. Photo by the author

And after leveling the edges, he cut the workpieces to size on the same homemade circular.

Cutting boards to size. Photo by the author
Cutting boards to size. Photo by the author

Trimmed to size in length on a simple slide for circular.

Cutting boards to length. Photo by the author
Cutting boards to length. Photo by the author

At the first stage of work on a project, you need to carefully prepare the blanks for further work. To do this, it is convenient to have a list of parts at hand, as well as make notes on the parts themselves, so that it is more convenient to work with them.

Worklist of parts for making a sofa. Photo by the author
Worklist of parts for making a sofa. Photo by the author

As a material, you can also use ready-made planed boards or furniture board. In this case, it will be enough to cut the parts to size according to the list.

More details about the initial work on the project can be viewed from video clip.

Download sofa project link.

You can read about a homemade planer planer here.

And read about the jointer from the circular here.

It is interesting

Last year, the channel had a series of posts on making a bathroom cabinet. Who is interested can see link.

And even earlier, there was a series of articles on making a durable, reliable stool. You can see here.

And more recently it was series about chair making.

Thanks for reading. I would be glad to have your support in the form of a like and a subscription to the channel. And see other publications on the channel.

Alexander.

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