Well the birthday parties are over, or at least until October when our youngest turns 7. We got the two older girls 9 and 13 taken care of yesterday, all their friends left around 6pm last night and I was able to get out in the shop and take inventory of what I have been missing for the last couple weeks. Last weekend I was working with my youngest girl on her school science fair project, and the rest of today we will be busy with that as well. So last night was a treat to get out in the ol shop and make friends with the walls again.

I used my new Lie Neilsen Shoulder Plane (Review soon to come) to trim up the rabbets for prefect leg joints. And I squeezed the legs on to the seat, and for the heck of it I set my newly designed rockers under the chair just to see if I like my own design I came up with for the rockers. Last chair I made I followed Hal Taylor's design to the book. This chair I am inserting my own flair. Swooped down rocker tails, and bat ear'd headrest top.

I really like the way my rockers turned out, I put a pretty sharp negative turn on the ends. Most rockers you see have a longer graceful turn down at the rocker tails, mine are quite sharper and more abrupt, I think I like them.

The following pics show the legs dry fitted, and the chair sitting on the top of the rockers, there are still risers that need to go between the legs and rockers to give the chair more height. Of course, there is a ton of sculpting that needs to be done. What your seeing now looks like a Gumby chair, boxy, very rough.

Next photo is the rear leg joints.

Next one is the front leg joints.

And what shop would be complete without a shop dog? This is "Woodie" he is one of two dogs we have. Our other dog is a rescue dog from a local shelter, I'll have pics of her later. The one here is a Lhasa Apso, he found us. We put up signs all around town, took him into the local shelter, and nobody claimed him, so he adopted us 3 years ago.

Thanks for looking folks, I hope to have more pics up in a few days. Now that the excitement is over, it's shop time! Oh, wait, I need to help my daughter complete her science project today for tomorrows due date at school. Ok, so, shop time after my day job all this week! Yahooooo!

Looking good !!

Thanks for the update. That rocker is coming right along. I love watching your rocker progress.   Looks to me like you getting to be an expert on making theses rockers.

I'll be standing by for the next update.

Rich

I like the new rockers. Looks like it is coming along nicely.

 

We will be reading about John Morris rockers in the mag's before long.

Thanks for the kudos guys! Yep, I like the rockers too, a little different then the others. Thanks again.

John Moody said:

I like the new rockers. Looks like it is coming along nicely.

 

We will be reading about John Morris rockers in the mag's before long.