The arms for the chair start with two rectangular blanks about 5 inches wide. These blanks needed to be roughly shaped before the outlines of the actual arms can be cut out at the band saw.
The shaping process for the arms involves two steps. The first step utilizes a jig that facilitates cove-cutting a grove [...]
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With the band sawing of the rear legs completed and the head rest holes drilled I set out to shape the rear legs and to band saw and shape the front legs.
Some of the shaping of the legs could be done with a round-over bit in a router table however, because of the irregular curves [...]
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Well, I have finally gotten back to work on the Sculpted Rocking Chair – yes, I know it’s been a while!
When I last left the project, I had completed sculpting the seat. With that task completed my attention turned back to more processing on the rear legs.
The rear legs needed to have a 20-degree angled [...]
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There’s still more work to do on the rockers and back braces but for now I have them on hold. However, with the joinery on the seat blank complete, I needed to complete the work on the front and rear legs so that they will mate with these joints in the seat.
As you will recall, [...]
From a woodworkers perspective, the thing that stands out most about a sculpted rocking chair like this is probably the Maloof-style joints used to join the legs to the seat. With all of the lamination behind me, I took the plunge to start the work for this unique joinery.
The joinery starts on the seat blank. [...]
