Rocker seat?

[NCTurner]

For those of you who have made rockers, what is the method used to shape the seat?

 

[Travis Porter]

Still working on mine, but it was a combination of a hand grinder with a wood cutting head, a larger surform (I think that is what it is called), a small surform, a couple of small block planes, rasps, and a sander with a variety of grits.....

The grinder with the head works well for RAPID stock removal, but you have to be careful with it. the surforms do well for removing the general ripples and inconsistencies.

 

[NCTurner]

Like these?

 

[boxxmaker]

I made a few of em and all I used was a 40 grit grinder wheel on my 8" disc grinder to shape it,then used a ROS going thru the grits to smooth it out.There really not that hard to make.Good luck with it.

 

[Shamrock]

It really depends on the profile you want. If your gonna keep the seat shallow (say less than 1/4" in the deepest part of the seat) than go with a flap disc sanding wheel on an angle grinder. If your gonna go deeper than the answer depends on the wood. If it's hard (maple, sapele, brazilian cherry, Euro beech) use a wheel like the one you linked to above- galahad also makes one (even one that has holes so you can see what your doing). If the wood is not so hard (walnut, cherry, mahogany) then get some gouges or mabye a scorp and do it by hand. After the rough shaping is done you'll have to use rasps, surforms, and your random orbit sander to get it truly flat and smooth. Just my .02

Good luck

 

[NCTurner]

Thanks, I picked up that nice Maple slab the Chris was selling at the picnic, with the spalting/ambrosia and curl. Thinking of a seat, hummm....

 

[Travis Porter]

I have the Galahad wheels. I couldn't think of the name of it.

 

[dlrion]

You lucky duck, I was eyeing that piece...

I want to see some pictures when you are done.

Dan

 

[Trent Mason]

Nice score Gary! :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap If you don't mind, I'd like to stop by when you're doing this. When I did the tractor seats in our rustic bench, I used 80 grit and my belt sander and cleaned it up with the ROS. An hour later, drenched in sweat, I was hoping there was a better way to do it. :swoon:

 

[tjgreen]

Gary, think you can get this finished by July? .

Rocker Cradle by Scott Morrison.

 

[NCTurner]

If you are thinking for the wife, you are way off I got less than 2 weeks left, and closing fast. In fact shop time is going to be nullified here real soon. I have been doing some bowl rough outs just so that when I do get some time I have a nice starting place. LOL

 

[dino drosas]

Gary, I used the carbide discs like the pictures of the ones you posted and they really make short work of it. Don't feed with too much pressure because they cut very aggressively and DO IT OUTSIDE! Dino