Rocking chair builder?

[Mike Davis]

I had a call from someone wanting to have a rocking chair built from a tree they had to take down.
The tree will have to be milled or parts could be saved for greenwood style construction.
The tree is oak but they are not sure what species or even if it’s red or white oak.

So, my question to the group, if you are an experienced rocking chair builder would you want to take on this job?

The tree has great sentimental value to them and they want part of it to keep as a memorial In the form of a chair.

 

[Mountain City Bill]

Yes, I would do it. Do they want an adult size or child size chair? Ernie Conover had a nice article in Fine Woodworking ( many years ago) building a shaker rocker. I have built one full size and 4 or 5 child sized rockers. For the child rockers, I made it 2/3 the size of full size.