Custom Wooden Rocking Chairs Dining Chairs Bar Stools and Tables 

After routing the edges best we could, we first glue the two leg sections to the centre main post. 

We use a tung and groove joint to attach the sections, so the glue up goes rather smoothly. Just apply a copious amount of glue and clamp until you can't clamp anymore.

Next we glue the other two sections to the centre post, again apply as much clamp pressure as we need.

Here is the pedestal all glue up ready for many hours of shaping and sanding.

Here is a close up of the tung and groove joints we use to attach the leg sections.

Here are the 2 sections that will create our 50'' circular table top. 

The top will seperate to accept 2 12'' leaves.

This is our circle cutting jig we use on our band saw, we can place a pivot any where along the centre line to cut any size circle.

We also had a photo shoot for our newest Sculpted trestle coffee table below i've attached a few pictures.

This will be one solid table! The centre post will be close to 12'' at its maximum diameter. The entire table will be built from Walnut expect for the hard Maple sliding dovetail runners that will allow the top to have 2 12'' leafs added to extend the table. So far the top will be 1.5'' thick and with a 52'' diameter and like I said will separate to allow 2 12'' extension leafs.   Oh and I did't mention the leg section will be about 4'' thick!

In the first picture here, it shows our templates we designed to create our pedestal table base.

Here the lumber has been dressed and cut to rough blanks, I have laid out the templates of each piece.

Next we cut the joints on our table saw using our miter jig, with a forrest blade designed for precession fine cross cutting we can achieve a very clean edge...... but of course we will clean it up by hand with a hand plane.

The stock is 2'' thick, we want our legs section to be 4'' thick, so we must laminate 2 pieces together to come to our final thickness.

Have you ever tried to glue 2 large faces together? Slippery!!! They want to jimmy in every direction. A little tip from David Marks is to tap in a brad nail and cut it off. When the boards are clamped together they stay put.

Notice our clamp wall has just one single lonely clamp just hanging around. People say wow you have so many clamps, but I must say this is one time we could use a bunch more! 

Oh well something to do first thing in the morning while sipping my wake up coffee.

Here are the blanks laid out almost how they will be. The leg section will have a 1.5'' tung the will slip inside a dado on the centre post.

That's all for today, we also have 2 custom wooden rocking chairs on the go but getting to the final stages. At least we've attached the rockers to both of them so Joel and I can have a break give them a good test sit. Ever time we sit in a newly assembled rocking chair we remember why we work so hard, once you have this chair you won't give it up, so it better last for life!

Cheers

Paul & Joel

Our latest chair is going to be a wedding gift, we've been holding off posting details about the engraving we had done on both the foot stool and rocking chair.

We had something special craved into the bottom of the seat. First we start with the test piece.........

What you see here is a piece of plywood we had cnc routed into with this design. Then we collected some Ebony sawdust mixed it with epoxy and filled the routed area, sanded smooth. We thought it looked great but decided to use Paduk sawdust for the colouring for the heart.

This is the foot stool that has been cnc'd and filled with epoxy.  Notice the difference in color from the ebony and paduk saw dust.

Now some sanding has taken place, although it looks pretty good, there is much sanding to do especially on the right side. Notice the font for the date has been adjusted to a more flowing font.

With our hand rubbed oil finish applied I decided to snap a few photo's of the finished stool.

Close up of cnc engravings

Custom double wooden rocking chair with matching foot stool, with matching cnc engravings.