Well here's what the chair looked like after shaping the rockers:
The 1st task was to mark what areas to avoid in shaping and to take the chair apart (this is like the 100th or so time it's come apart):tinysmile_tongue_t: Here's what the before leg looks like:
Then I marked the bottom around the dowel hole to make the bottom section round:
This is actually a departure from my original design- I was going to have it flared out at the bottom, as you can see in the rough leg. But after looking at a bunch of pictures of other rockers and also looking at how tight my leg-to-rocker interface was I decided to go round instead. So I roughed the shape out on the angle grinder, then used the spokeshaves to clean it up.
Next I cleaned up all of my rough band saw marks on the rest of the legs on the spindle sander in preparation for the next stage (rounding over with 3/4" round over bit)
(this is a tool gloat in disguise-I've been wanting that Rigid sander for awhile and this was the perfect excuse to convince the wife I had to have it)
Next I went to the router: You can see in the next pics 1 finished leg and also 1 unfinished leg-the areas marked in white are the areas that got rounded over:
I left the inside edge with a hard line as John taught us in class that Maloof chairs generally have a hard edge that flows in a circle around the chair:
Here's what they both look like done:
and here's what the chair looks like after today's effort:
you can really see from the back view how much lighter the back half looks now:
Tomorrow I'll finish shaping the front legs (maybe
)
Until then........
also-here's a cool link I found this morning looking around for rocker pics-it's a pretty good pictorial on the build process and also has a good "what tools you need list" -notice to John-this guy uses the Veritas dowel shaper too:gar-La;:gar-La;-sorry I just couldn't let it pass
http://www.charlesbrockchairmaker.com/
:BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:clamps-clamps-why do I never have enough clamps
The 1st task was to mark what areas to avoid in shaping and to take the chair apart (this is like the 100th or so time it's come apart):tinysmile_tongue_t: Here's what the before leg looks like:
Then I marked the bottom around the dowel hole to make the bottom section round:
This is actually a departure from my original design- I was going to have it flared out at the bottom, as you can see in the rough leg. But after looking at a bunch of pictures of other rockers and also looking at how tight my leg-to-rocker interface was I decided to go round instead. So I roughed the shape out on the angle grinder, then used the spokeshaves to clean it up.
Next I cleaned up all of my rough band saw marks on the rest of the legs on the spindle sander in preparation for the next stage (rounding over with 3/4" round over bit)
(this is a tool gloat in disguise-I've been wanting that Rigid sander for awhile and this was the perfect excuse to convince the wife I had to have it)
Next I went to the router: You can see in the next pics 1 finished leg and also 1 unfinished leg-the areas marked in white are the areas that got rounded over:
I left the inside edge with a hard line as John taught us in class that Maloof chairs generally have a hard edge that flows in a circle around the chair:
Here's what they both look like done:
and here's what the chair looks like after today's effort:
you can really see from the back view how much lighter the back half looks now:
Tomorrow I'll finish shaping the front legs (maybe
) Until then........
also-here's a cool link I found this morning looking around for rocker pics-it's a pretty good pictorial on the build process and also has a good "what tools you need list" -notice to John-this guy uses the Veritas dowel shaper too:gar-La;:gar-La;-sorry I just couldn't let it pass
http://www.charlesbrockchairmaker.com/
:BangHead::BangHead::BangHead:clamps-clamps-why do I never have enough clamps
