A good way to start off a new subforum I thought.
Well, it was another long day for the rocker boys. We begain the day at 9:00am and ended it after 6pm. We started the day by grinding the carving marks out of our seats.
Once that was complete we moved on to the dowel jointery for the arm. Much of the drilling is done by sight with a spotter checking square, but the back legs could be done using the drill press.
By lunch everyone had their arm jointery complete. Steve here is also checking out his crest rail design to make sure he likes the way it looks with the chair.
The afternoon was spent grinding the arms and designing the spindles. I didn't get at pics of the spindle fitting process, but they are completely custom to the user.
Before shaping the arms I gave the maloof bandsawing technique a try on the arms. This is even more risky than the seat bandsawing, but it really saves grinding time. Here is Monty giving it a go. This is definitely not something you want to try at home. The guys had experience from doing the seat sculpting and I gave them the choice to try it. Everyone did very well, but it isn't something I encourage folks to try.
It was a good day. The guys will be home preparing their spindles and polishing up their arms. Next class will all be about finishing and fitting the spindles to the seat and crest rail. The guys did also shape out the seat and mark the hole locations for the spindles.
Thanks for viewing.
John
Well, it was another long day for the rocker boys. We begain the day at 9:00am and ended it after 6pm. We started the day by grinding the carving marks out of our seats.
Once that was complete we moved on to the dowel jointery for the arm. Much of the drilling is done by sight with a spotter checking square, but the back legs could be done using the drill press.
By lunch everyone had their arm jointery complete. Steve here is also checking out his crest rail design to make sure he likes the way it looks with the chair.
The afternoon was spent grinding the arms and designing the spindles. I didn't get at pics of the spindle fitting process, but they are completely custom to the user.
Before shaping the arms I gave the maloof bandsawing technique a try on the arms. This is even more risky than the seat bandsawing, but it really saves grinding time. Here is Monty giving it a go. This is definitely not something you want to try at home. The guys had experience from doing the seat sculpting and I gave them the choice to try it. Everyone did very well, but it isn't something I encourage folks to try.
It was a good day. The guys will be home preparing their spindles and polishing up their arms. Next class will all be about finishing and fitting the spindles to the seat and crest rail. The guys did also shape out the seat and mark the hole locations for the spindles.
Thanks for viewing.
John
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