Thread: Making a rocker with the Domino jointer - WIP

Hi Rocker,

Although I don't have a Domino (yet...), I'd be interested to see how this works through.

BTW, I notice that you have a shop built infeed table for use with your Jet B/S - but I couldn't see an outfeed table? I find that both are necessary when cutting long boards. Care to comment?

Excellent Rocker! I will watch this one with great interest, as I want to build a Rocker one day .....

I'm sure the Jarrah will look brilliant. Have you any thoughts of adding some details with a contrasting, maybe a blond timber? .....just a thought.

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Hi Rocker,

Although I don't have a Domino (yet...), I'd be interested to see how this works through.

BTW, I notice that you have a shop built infeed table for use with your Jet B/S - but I couldn't see an outfeed table? I find that both are necessary when cutting long boards. Care to comment?

Steve,

Being Scottish, I just move the roller stand to the outfeed side for the last part of the cut. It works for me.

Martrix,

I will probably use some silver ash to form the blocks between the legs and the rockers. I find that jarrah and silver ash contrast nicely.


Rocker

Excellent thread Rocker, im realy looking foward to this. I liked your little wedge on the other thread re cutting the angled mortice

David,

That port thingy on the bandsaw is where you hitch up a dust extractor............. it saves having a workshop full of dust & crap on the floor, oh yeh, it saves your lungs to

Major,

OK, you are right; but I made the mistake of buying a 1 HP rather than a 2 HP dust collector, so I am always going to have dust on the floor. I wear a dust mask when doing particularly dusty jobs, but my lungs have a head-start on yours - I don't smoke

Rocker

I'll be watching......check out this thread on shaping:

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=34053

Could be good for those legs, and the spindles?

den

I am amazed at the amount of progress that the Domino has enabled me to make in a couple of days' work; admittedly I previously had done quite a bit of preliminary TurboCAD work, and had compiled a table for the Domino parameters for each of the mortices, with columns for the cutter diameter, milling depth, jointing height, width setting, and the reference face on which the layout line is drawn.

The pic shows the unshaped skeleton of the chair, whose parts had still to be cut out of the boards two days ago, dry assembled. I chose not to fit the top back rail, since it is a bit tricky to assemble too many joints single-handed; but the top rail's mortices are cut too, and it fits well between the back legs.

I spent much of the time checking and re-checking my measurements, the layout lines, and the various adjustments to the Domino, since any mistake could potentially be costly in terms of wasted timber. There is no doubt that, once you got in the groove, you could cut the rocker's mortices very quickly, if you were building a number of them at once.

Rocker

Originally Posted by Rocker

There is no doubt that, once you got in the groove, you could cut the rocker's mortices very quickly, if you were building a number of them at once.

Rocker

Awesome........Look out, the "House of Rocker" will be going into production very soon ...the Maloof of Oz

WoodWizard of Oz?

Rocker is looking good Mr Rocker. Are you keeping tabs on hrs?

Originally Posted by Rocker

I am amazed at the amount of progress that the Domino has enabled me to make in a couple of days' work

This is the bit that`s hard to get others who havnt used one to understand.

Youve got all the peices for a project dressed and cut to size and your ready to mortice and assemble, and with Domi it just seems to flow with beautiful accuracy and so little time and effort.

Then for once you actualy enjoy the dry fit up because it fits with such precision and moderatly tight fit, its a joy.

This is a special tool that makes your time in the workshop so much more enjoyable. Love it

Originally Posted by Rocker

Being Scottish, I just move the roller stand to the outfeed side for the last part of the cut. It works for me.

Rocker

A Scot who buy $1200+ power tool. Now there's a first.

That Scottish blood seems awfully diluted

Originally Posted by TassieKiwi

I'll be watching......check out this thread on shaping:

http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=34053

Could be good for those legs, and the spindles?

den

Dennis,

Although I normally shy away from the Dark Side, I find that the initial shaping of the back legs of a rocker can be done more quickly and easily with a compass plane rather than by pattern routing, since it is not essential that the back legs be precisely identical and since they will be rounded over later anyway.

The backslats need to be made as bent laminations, since they are only 8 mm thick and they would be much too weak if they were pattern routed from solid wood. Pattern routing would no doubt be effective for the much thicker solid-wood spindles that are usually used for Maloof-style rockers with solid-wood seats.

Rocker

All makes sense. My first job tomorrow am is to smooth the legs with - my #20, so there ya go. The router was really efficient in getting the 2-3mm if initial waste off, and my design called for exact shapes for the 4 vertical members at each end.

Had to get up at 04:30hrs to cuddle Domi, did we? She gets nice and warm after about 10 mins of domineering.