Nice relaxing sunday, time to re-saw some rocking chair back braces and rocker laminations. I had already done the Ebony the other day but need to cut the 3 other laminations for each back brace, for a total of 48 more walnut laminations......... time to crank up the music and settle in. It's actually not that bad we re-saw using a 1'' wide blade that is carbide tipped to leave a very smooth finish with a very small kerf its cuts really straight and goes pretty quick through Walnut, it was the Ebony that really was a harder job.
In this picture you can see 2 seat blanks that have been removed from the clamps ready to be drum sanded to remove any inperfections in the glue up. Also is a stack of back brace lamination all in order for each chair. A few hours is actually spent organizing them, there's no going back once there glued up in the forms.
Here are the back braces laid out and numbered for each rocking chair. Again keeping everything organized is very important, a lot of hard work went into making nice grain matched laminations, no messing it up now!
Arms, Front legs and Headrest blanks for the 2 chairs, tomorrow will be working on these , especially the headrest as it needs to start getting glued up tomorrow, it has about 4 steps to glue it all together. This is because we use a coopered headrest, where we can match the grain to the seat and arms, and get a larger curve which assures more comfort to your body in one of our custom rocking chairs.
Below is a picture of our templates which seem to grow every week. Can't wait to come up with some new designs, and share them with you.
Below is the fist table we've really played with the leg design, it is actually a really neat table, that will look great next to a rocking chair. The top is beautiful built from one board it's matched with a sap line down the middle, pictured to the left.
