I was about to buy a new chair to replace my elderly fold-out one, but this ended up becoming my go-to for the campfire, and it was free!Īll you really have to worry about with this chair is whether the hole in the backrest allows the seat slab to slide in and stay put, and you can pretty much make up all the rest of the rules.

So I figured if it ended up being uncomfortable I’d just take it apart and use the wood to reinvent some other wheel. Like most of my projects I considered this a proof of concept, because even though this concept has been proven for thousands of years by millions of people, I’d never sat in one. But it wasn’t until I salvaged a palette that turned out to be made out of skinny strips of nice furniture-grade plywood, that I finally decided it was time to build my own chair. Then I saw this 'ible and decided I should make one using my copious collection of plywood scraps. This particular Instructable inspired me a few years back, but a plank of sufficient dimension never manifested itself. But a quick image search will give you the idea: two pieces, collapsible, and you sit on one piece and lean back on the other. This chair has been called by a variety of names, so you won’t get a definitive pile of results from the interwebnets using just one search term: you’ll want to try Bog chair, Stargazer chair, Viking chair, Celtic chair, Plank chair, One-board chair, African chair, or Boy Scout chair.

Star gazer chair