User talk:JamesMKnudsen

The concept of this project was born many many years ago. With some friends I was on a festival with a lot of beer, a lot of rock bands and a lot of fun. All around there were a lot of stalls also with a lot of everything and particularly an african-inspired site were a lot of handmade stuff was sold.There was a chair, hardwood, foldable, handmade, heavy and too expensive for my student's budget at that time. I wanted it, so I decided to make one myself. I spent a lot of time hanging around making mental pictures (there were no mobiles yet - I'm gettin' old!) and took some basic measurements with a, well, empty beer bottle...Back at home I started experimenting and when my first one was finished I discovered that this could be THE birding chair.I love birding. Sitting 12 hours on a mountain pass to observe & count migrating raptors, storks, passerines and other stuff passing by is something you really must have done in this life. It's magic, I can't describe it differently.But, while birding you're looking all the time into the sky. Painful and bad for your neck, except with this chair. Why? Because you're leaning backwards!When I arrived for the first time in Organbidexka, a french counting site, everybody looked at me and wanted to test that crazy thing. They called it 'La Chaise Royale' - The Royal Chair.Since then I did a lot of modifications - this must be version 4.0 or so...Why is it different from those other 'ethnic' chairs? Because in a classic foldable chair the seat goes in the back, in mine the back goes into the seat since I wanted a very large sitting surface - luxury birding!I made this one a few years ago. Since then the wood has started to split and I've got to do some reinforcements with aluminium plates and bolts. Many people have asked me the dimensions of it and hence I didn't know Instructables at the time I made it there are no pics of the building process. The sketches and plans will compensate, I hope.Build it. Test it!