My wife figured out that raising her Ekornes chair a bit would help her in getting out of it. After testing with temporary blocking, we decided that about 1-1/4” would be right. Here is the end result. The white rubber bumpers serve to make up for the height of the rug and will stop the chair from sliding on its plastic swivel base ring.
Started at Homer’s with a 1/4 sheet of 3/4” Sandeply (over $30 and kinda splintery) and then bandsawed eight 90 degree arced segments. Then pattern routed to final dimension.
Next assembled a ring of four topped by another ring of four offset 45 degrees all glued and screwed together. Then using a rabbet bit in my router table, rabbeted the top outside of the ring to fit the Ekornes plastic base ring.
A bit of spackle filled the Sandeply voids. Sprayed it black with a rattle can and installed the bumpers to finish this useful little project. A functionally equivalent commercial one would have cost $178 at one place that I looked.
Started at Homer’s with a 1/4 sheet of 3/4” Sandeply (over $30 and kinda splintery) and then bandsawed eight 90 degree arced segments. Then pattern routed to final dimension.
Next assembled a ring of four topped by another ring of four offset 45 degrees all glued and screwed together. Then using a rabbet bit in my router table, rabbeted the top outside of the ring to fit the Ekornes plastic base ring.
A bit of spackle filled the Sandeply voids. Sprayed it black with a rattle can and installed the bumpers to finish this useful little project. A functionally equivalent commercial one would have cost $178 at one place that I looked.