Another in the series of reviews of DVD’s from the SmartFlix Woodworking University, this time I review two profile DVDs: Sam Maloof and Tage Frid from Taunton Press. While these DVD’s do not solely contain content on woodworking technique, if you have any interest in what goes on in the shops and minds of two [...]
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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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You may be wondering just when does the sculpting of this Sculpted Rocking Chair actually start? The answer is that is starts now!
Well, maybe after a quick commercial interruption…you’ll recall that in the last post I had glued the two perfectly good front legs together with a piece of two inch stock in between them. [...]
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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. [...]
