My Next Project

[charlese]

This is an up front edit: MADE WITH A SHOPSMITH!

Thanks for your questions and kind remarks, I am nowhere near being a expert craftsman, but keep trying to achieve making useful furniture.

Here are the photos taken since the rocker is done. YEA! Done. In the finishing process, finally the time to quit has arrived,

Yes, after staining the first coat, I found some glue spots not discovered earlier . More sanding and more staining over the sanded areas.

This is the frontal look at a sitting chair

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Closer look at arms and seat

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rear view of finished rocker

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Yes, it is a crowded shop - You should have seen it before I got rid of some stuff.

[algale]

Wow, wow, wow, wow! Beautiful work!

EDIT: Showed this to my wife and she is very impressed, too!

[rjent]

Charlese you have just taken my breath away. That is perfection! You sir are a master craftsman, whether you acknowledge it or not ....

Very Very well done!

[tdubnik]

Chuck, that is one GORGEOUS chair.

I can only aspire to that level of craftsmanship.

[davebodner]

Beautiful!

Were those arms sliced from the same piece of wood?

[moggymatt]

Simply amazing! I loved watching this project. Thank you for sharing it.

[charlese]

The arms were bandsawn from the same piece of wood. Black walnut, planed to 1 3/4" thick. The slopes of the arms were somewhat sliced off by bandsawing at an angle. After mounting, they were ground down with an angle grinder equipped with a "kutzall fine doughnut disk.

As you can see, I did a better"slicing job" on the right arm than the left.

Arms with bandsaw slices

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P.S. The blank for the seat can be seen to the right of the arms. The squared marking for the right front leg cutout is at the bottom of the blank. The short mark between the bottom two boards shows the location of a biscuit joint.

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[JPG]

Drop Dead Gorgeous!!!!

Finished in time I assume?

[BuckeyeDennis]

Magnificent!

I'm hereby adding one of those to my bucket list. And hoping that I live long enough to develop the requisite woodworking skills.

Your daughter-in-law is a very lucky lady. I'd love to be "a fly on the wall" when you present it to her -- please let us know how that goes.

[nuhobby]

Awesome job, Chuck!


Chris