I finished a rocking chair last week, and it's now safely rocking its new owner. This is a small size, and I made it using the plans put out by Hal Taylor. He has been working and improving on this design for over 20 years, and it's very comfortable with the flexible back braces, so I couldn't see any sense in trying to reinvent the wheel. This chair is Qld maple with a silver ash feature in the rocker. It can't be seen, but the backs of the back braces are red cedar.
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I started a medium size rocking chair today that will be heading interstate, and I thought a WIP thread might be of some interest.
The timber on the floor is Qld maple. Each piece is 250 x 50 mm and almost 6 metres long. I'll use almost one entire board to make the medium rocker. This is as clean as the workshop will be for the next two or three weeks while I make the chair. There's a lot of grinding, and a massive amount of dust.
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Once the timber has been sorted out, it's then a matter of playing around with the grain and laying out the templates to cut the individual pieces. This piece of timber had a little more sapwood than I would have liked, so I had to juggle the templates around a bit so the sapwood would add to rather than detract from the final look of the chair.
This is the rocking chair waiting to be put together: back brace laminations top left, headrest pieces top right, and in front, back legs, front legs, arm rests (which may or may not go the way they're outlined), and seat. The rocker laminations are downstairs waiting to be cleaned up.
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All these pieces will be heavily hacked and slashed with the grinder, bandsaw, table saw, routers and rasps. Hand saws and hand planes will also have their part to play. That will all start tomorrow.
Des
small_rocking_chair.jpg small_rocking_chair2.jpg
I started a medium size rocking chair today that will be heading interstate, and I thought a WIP thread might be of some interest.
The timber on the floor is Qld maple. Each piece is 250 x 50 mm and almost 6 metres long. I'll use almost one entire board to make the medium rocker. This is as clean as the workshop will be for the next two or three weeks while I make the chair. There's a lot of grinding, and a massive amount of dust.
qld_maple.jpg
Once the timber has been sorted out, it's then a matter of playing around with the grain and laying out the templates to cut the individual pieces. This piece of timber had a little more sapwood than I would have liked, so I had to juggle the templates around a bit so the sapwood would add to rather than detract from the final look of the chair.
This is the rocking chair waiting to be put together: back brace laminations top left, headrest pieces top right, and in front, back legs, front legs, arm rests (which may or may not go the way they're outlined), and seat. The rocker laminations are downstairs waiting to be cleaned up.
rocking_chair_components.jpg
All these pieces will be heavily hacked and slashed with the grinder, bandsaw, table saw, routers and rasps. Hand saws and hand planes will also have their part to play. That will all start tomorrow.
Des
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