Well, for the next couple of days I will be working on getting some more children's knock down rocking chairs done. I have a friend that bought 2 of them before for his grandkids and he needs 2 more as he has 2 more grandkids that will be born in January. Also my niece gave birth this morning to her first child, so I have to send one out to her in Phoenix, AZ. 

I had 2 sheets of 1/2" Baltic Birch plywood 5'x5' that I had to trace out and rough cut all the pieces. It only took me 6 hours of tracing, cutting out with a jig saw and then get the garage/shop cleaned up so my wife could park her car in it tonight. I am bushed and sore, but it was a good day.

Here is what the chairs will look like when completed. They are 6 pieces that interlock together like a puzzle with a locking key in the back.

This is a photo of a typical layout on a 5'x5' sheet of plywood. I can get 2 full chairs and a couple extra  pieces to minimize scrap. I have to cut them out with a jig saw about 1/8" outside of the traced lines and then mount them to the templates with double side woodturners tape and run them on the router table with a pattern bit w/bearing. After that is done then I use a round over bit on the edges on both sides.

Here are all the pieces I cut out today. 

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Allen Worsham
Corona, CA

allenworsham@earthlink.net

'Graze in every man's field, but always give your own milk.'
J. Vernon McGee

“Our greatest fear should not be that we won’t succeed,
but that we will succeed at something that doesn’t matter.â€
D.L. Moody

Hey we are back at it!!!!! That is a very well planned and impressive layout Allen. Do you still sell the templates for these chairs?

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

Nice layout- not much waste!

They are cute little chairs.

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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

Time Traveler and Purveyor of the Universe's Finest Custom Rolling Pins!

Busy, busy, busy!!! This will keep you out of trouble for a while.

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Harry Brink
Bulldog Woodworking
Montana

Hey Allen, I got to thinking, isn't that setting a bad example for children, making children knock down rocking chairs?  I wouldn't want those kids in my house!!!!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker

John,

I stopped selling the hardboard templates as they were just too expensive to ship due to the size of the packaging. It would cost me about $16-$20 just to ship them depending on where they went. So I have been selling the paper templates for $20 which includes shipping and they ship out nicely in a large envelope with a CD with instructions and pictures. You just have to unfold the templates and lay them out a bit and then use spray adhesive to glue them down to a sheet of hardboard and then cut them out. I started out originally with paper templates and it just takes one day in the shop to make them and then you have them forever. 

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Allen Worsham
Corona, CA

allenworsham@earthlink.net

'Graze in every man's field, but always give your own milk.'
J. Vernon McGee

“Our greatest fear should not be that we won’t succeed,
but that we will succeed at something that doesn’t matter.â€
D.L. Moody