martinka
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RogerP":17st3hd7 said:Thanks for the comments folk. I have a couple of observations for anyone contemplating making one.
The design as printed directly from the downloaded image was too small (on my PC set-up anyway) for normal diameter pencils to fit the holes. So I imported the image into Gimp (any good image program would do) and enlarged it until the holes were sufficiently big. Obviously the whole thing grows a little as well but that does not really matter.
The second point is that for a child's use it probably would be better to use thicker wood, At least for the sides use thicker wood than is obtained by measuring the seat and back tab slots from the plan. This would mean either using thinner wood for seat and back pieces or cutting normal tenons on the thicker wood instead of plain tabs. There's not really enough space to increase the thickness of the slots in the sides.
Why not just use a bigger drill? I mean, without scaling up the drawing. I think I used a 7mm, or maybe a 7.5mm drill, which was plenty big enough for the pencils I had.