Had to resaw one of these things..

Cut one down to 26" long ( less to resaw) then marked it for a 2" or so wide cut.    Set the extras aside..

After I had resawn the slab off.   Then made a bunch of lines, to make 1/2" thick slats.    I had one of the sides to the rocker on the bench, to lay out mortises  for the back rails.   I left the rails sit in place, as a spot to lay the slats as each came off the bandsaw...

A little rough?   We do have ways to deal with "rough"

I laid the slats out to get the spacings, and see just how many slats I would need to make.   Need a lot of plane work at the moment, and some tenons cut on the ends of the slats.  I had went and bought a couple of 3/16" dowels to pin some joints with.     Why buy fancy pins, when the rocker is scheduled to be painted, anyway.

I also laid out a tenon on the end of the front post

As  there will be a through tenon to hold the armrest in place......with wedges, too. 

 

As for working in this shop?

Welcome to the Dungeon Shop!   This is about it for work space.   I can walk around the bandsaw, to access other items..

I can move things around in here, as needed, and the lathe is to the right of the picture, buried as usual.   When I need to run the lathe, I can move things around again.   This space also allows access to a few handsaws....

There are a few "out & about" at the moment,  these are in case I might need a saw.    Might have enough?

Maybe later, IF the bench can be cleaned off, I can go back into tenon-mode.....we'll see.   Stay tuned to this "Batty Channel", same "Bat Time, same Bat-Channel"

Thanks for the tour!

I see a lot of wasted space up in them rafters ... 

But some slats across the bottom of them and you

can slide lots of different things up in them....