Claro Walnut Rocker's Glue-Up

[John Morris]

Last night I managed to get one of the rockers glued up and in the form. I have to work fast for this process, so all my clamps need to be near by in reach, and I had to spread my glue on 16 surfaces, each side of each lam except for the top and bottom of the rocker. I used Titebond III which typically has a longer open time than traditional white glue. So it gave me about 10 minutes to work with, but I may have only taken 5 minutes, but it's a long 5 minutes!

After getting the lams glued up, and set the stack on my rocker form.

 

 

Then the clamps were applied I'll be able to remove this rocker from the form this morning, and I can then prep the next stack of lams and get them into the form as well.

 

 

 

This next set of lams (below image) will go into the form this morning. I also set my alternative rocker "top form" in the picture too, I departed from the original design of the rocker ("top form" in image above) and created my own design "top form" to extend the rear of the rockers out, and arcing downwards, I love that look. My original intention was to use my modified top form for this chair but I could not, because after my rocker lams had set for so long, the ends split, and I did not have enough material to accommodate the longer rockers, so I had to cut them down, and use the "per-design" top form, much shorter, but still a nice look.

There is a lot of room in the making of these chairs to inflict your own design pain over time, eventually I'll have a chair that reflects more of my own thoughts with just a trace of the original design, one step at a time.

 

 

[John Morris]

She popped! It took a couple minutes to get her separated from the form. But she finally gave in!

[Stick486]

36 minutes ago, John Morris said:

She popped! It took a couple minutes to get her separated from the form. But she finally gave in!

do you wax your form ot use wax paper on it to help w/ the separation???

[John Morris]

11 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

do you wax your form ot use wax paper on it to help w/ the separation???

I suppose I could stick, but never have. The reason is, the grab happens on the sides of the form to lams. It's just drippings spanning the lams to the form, not the actual lam surface to the form, so waxing or wax paper would have no effect.

[John Morris]

Cleaned up a bit, good for a chair.

[John Morris]

And our second rocker is in the form. I'll pop it in the morning tomorrow.

[Dadio]

John, I use that Glad sticky wrap when I do veneering and it works great to release the part. Also have used packing tape,glue doesn't stick to it. just a suggestion. (on the jig)

Herb

Edited October 22, 2016 by Dadio

[HandyDan]

Nice.  I'd have glue up to my elbows by the time I got it clamped up.

[John Morris]

Thanks for all the wonderful commentary guys, and the encouragement! @Dadio, I'll take all suggestions, that's how we learn, and thanks!!!!!

[Chips N Dust]

That looks GREAT! Keep on coming with the step by step, I love it.

[John Morris]

On 10/24/2016 at 7:15 AM, Chips N Dust said:

That looks GREAT! Keep on coming with the step by step, I love it.

I most certainly will Chips! Thanks for the kind comment.

[DuckSoup]

   So John, based on a lot of your pictures how much of the walnut market do you have cornered?