Woodworker's Journal 1993-17-2, страница 28

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Garden Arbor

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ardening is the number one hobby in the United States (yes, even more folks garden than do woodworking), and if you or someone in your house does gardening, chances arc you've noticed the recent popularity of arbors. What's an arbor? Well, as we discovered, it can take many forms. We've seen arbors that serve as entry-ways to a garden path, seats within the garden, or just as a trellis for climbing vines like ivy or honeysuckle.

But you needn't be a gardener or even have a garden to enjoy an arbor. It makes a perfect seat in a quiet corner of the lawn, or it can be an elegant entrance for a walkway. Wherever you decide to place it. an arbor is a distinctive addition to your landscape, no doubt the reason we've seen so many of these in the various gardening catalogs that pass our way.

The Basic Concept

We've tried to design our arbor to be as versatile as possible. Although we show it with a seat, and a trellis formed by a scries of shop-built latticework panels, ytw can build the arbor in any number of configurations. You can even substitute store bought lattice (typically sold in 4 It by 8 ft. panels, which you then cut to size) it you'd rather not spend the lime crafting the Chippendale-style lattice panels thai we show.

If you decide to use the arbor as an entryway, and opt for the store-bought lattice, keep in mind that this lattice is mainly decorative, and has little strength. Since on our arbor, the lattice panels also serve as the supports joining the front and back pairs of legs, you'll need to add a few support stretchers between the legs. You'll also need to run a molding around the lattice, as a way to hold it in place.

The framework of the arbor is comprised of just three different parts, the posts (A), stretchers (B) and ends (C). The four posts are pressure-treated 4 by 4's; the stretchers and ends, like all the remaining parts, are redwood. We might add here that cedar is an acceptable substitute for the redwood.

Before you start, consider how the arbor will be used. Although we just rested our arbor on the ground (leveling

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