Rocker plans

[Rocker]

Is the southern winter getting you down? Perhaps it is time to start on a project that will keep you on your toes until springtime. Making a rocker will win you a huge stock of brownie points with your partner, and you might even be able to use it as a convincing argument for upgrading from a triton to a proper table saw.

For details of ordering the plans, visit my website

www.dldundas.com (http://www.dldundas.com/)

Here is a picture of the heirloom piece that you can create with the plans.

Rocker

[bitingmidge]

An unpaid for advertisement!

I haven't built the chair and haven't bought the plans - YET! but I have sat in one, and it's as good a rocking chair as you will ever see.

Rocker wouldn't tell you, but he has also built a chair designed by a well known designer, which was just not quite right to sit in, the balance is just not quite right, and the detailing not as refined.

I think the other five who visited on the weekend would agree. Rocker didn't volunteer the comparison, we did! (I know in fact, because one of them bought the plans on the spot!)

This post is not for Rocker's benefit, it is for the benefit of all who may be contemplating building another style of chair!

Cheers,

P :)

[Ivan in Oz]

G'Day Rocker,

I've just visited your website with a view of checking out the Rocking Chair.
While there, I found:-

"If you have a well equipped workshop,
preferably with a planer, jointer, router, table saw, band saw, drill-press and sliding compound miter-saw"

OK So now I've got an idea of what else goes on the 'Wish List'
Band saw......Hmmmmmm???
Drill Press, I can use the one at Work, sawdust in a metal workshop :eek:
Someone will ask questions :confused:
Planer, what about hand planes? Hand and 'lectric.
Jointer, Nah, No such animal

"and are ready to undertake a project that is challenging"
Oooh! Not quite yet,
let me get my hand and eye back in.


Count

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[Rocker]

Ivan,

Perhaps you did not give sufficient weight to the word "preferably"; it would be possible to make my rocker with just hand-tools, plus a router and table-saw. I made my first chair by sawing its back legs from the board with a coping saw. It can be done - but it is hard work :) In retrospect, I should have made a bow-saw to do the job.

I admit it is a fairly challenging project in that there are quite a number of hours' work involved; but there is nothing that requires exceptional skill. The instructions that come with the plans explain how everthing is done. If you have plenty of time and persistence, you can make one.

Rocker

[snappperhead]

hi rocker,

in my opinon the upholstered cushion is compromising the look of the rocker immensley. it is a beautiful piece of furniture indeed and i will be ordering a copy of you plans but i will be allowing for a solid bottom. It may sacrifice a little in comfort, but my **** is cushioned enough as it is! i think time spent with an inshave would greatly maximise its aestheitcs. i also think that your upholstery would be inhanced with a little embelishment on the fabric. i can definaltey visualise some embroidery (be it flowers, some motif whatever) on the seat just to add to the nature of the piece.

[Rocker]

Snapperhead,

We obviously differ in our nether regions; I find rockers with solid-wood seats too hard for sitting in comfortably for long periods. I have the seat on my rockers upholstered in leather by a professional, and they are really comfortable. As soon as you settle into one, you feel the tensions of life start to ebb away. Perhaps your aesthetic objection to the seat would have been less if I had been able to get my seat upholstered in a darker colour. To do so, I would have had to pay for the upholsterer to order in a large sheet of leather.

I have to say that it would be very difficult to adapt my design to a solid-wood seat. This is because my rocker uses mortice-and-tenon joinery, whereas rockers with solid-wood seats use specialised housing joints to connect the legs to the seat. So, if you are determined to have a solid-wood seat, you would do better to order your plans from Hal Taylor in the US. See

http://www.haltaylor.com/

The only problem is that his plans cost US$275, whereas mine are about a tenth of that price. I am not aware of anyone else who sells plans of a reclining rocker of this style.

Rocker

[Sturdee]

Rocker, I was going to give you a greenie for pointing out that your rocker was not designed for a solid seat but the board would not let me.

Such honesty is very refreshing. Well done.

Peter.

[Slavo]

I see that Spielman's The Art of the Router (http://www.skillspublish.com.au/BK09-03.htm) has a Hal taylor design with a solid timber seat. I don't know what design/construction details are in the book, probably a lot less detailed than his US$275 stuff? Does anyone else have this book who could provide more comment? BTW, I agree with Rocker re. the padded seat vs solid.

[bigAl]

Damn it Biting Midge, you most irritating of insects, I wasn't going to fess up about the plans I bought of Rockers Rocker, just make it, post a pic and bathe in the mass of praise I was sure to receive for my genius, skill and originality and ability to draft really, really long sentences with an excess of commas. It's enough to make me go off my (ok, his) rocker.

Seriously, I've had a good read through Rockers plans and they are well thought out and clearly explained in abundant detail. If only all plans were this well done, the bed-head I made wouldn't be getting used in a dolls house. Imperial, schmerial.

Yours in disgust,

BigAl.

[Rocker]

bigAl,

I am looking forward to seeing the pictures of the completed rocker. I wonder what timber you are proposing to make it from. I have always used blackwood so far. I am sure jarrah would work too.

Rocker

[bigAl]

Actually Rocker, I was thinking of using some of that old Cuban Mahogany of mine. Seems like a worthwhile cause.

Al.

[AlexS]

Just had a look at Ryan's execution of Rocker's chair. The design is great - elegant, inviting, good lumbar support & strength where it's needed. Have a green one, Rocker.

[Wongo]

Rocky, do you have mates rate? :p

[Rocker]

Scott,

My rates ARE mates' rates. My competitor charges like a scrub bull. But members can save themselves time and and the cost of a stamp by ordering the CD by PM, and paying by direct transfer to my bank account, as you did :)

Rocker

[Rocker]

I should mention that the URL given at the beginning of this thread is now obsolete, although it is still accessible. Owing to major movements in exchange rates, I have had to raise the cost of my plans for American, Canadian and British customers. However, the cost remains the same for customers in Australia and New Zealand. My new website, giving details of the plans and their cost is at http://www.dldundas.com .

Rocker

[Wongo]

Received the CD yesterday. Lots of information and very professional. Well done Rocky. :)


Anyone wants a genuine rocking chair plan? Vely vely cheap. :D :D Sorry I can’t help it. I am Chinese. :D :D

[Rocker]

Received the CD yesterday. Lots of information and very professional. Well done Rocky. :)


Anyone wants a genuine rocking chair plan? Vely vely cheap. :D :D Sorry I can’t help it. I am Chinese. :D :D

Thanks, Scott. If I discover pirated copies of the CD for sale, I shall know who to blame :p

Rocker

[boban]

Yep picked a CD up at the markets on the weekend. Those Chinese guys are quick aren't they...

[gazaly]

Received the CD yesterday. Lots of information and very professional. Well done Rocky. :)


Anyone wants a genuine rocking chair plan? Vely vely cheap. :D :D Sorry I can’t help it. I am Chinese. :D :D

Put me down for a gross Wongo. Usual rate?

:D :D :D :D

[Wongo]

:p :p :p


:D :D :D


:cool: :cool: :cool:

[Wongo]

Gazaly, special prize just for you. :cool:


Oh some more just fell off the back of a truck. Lucky day. :D