Thread: Making Rocker's Rocker

Very nice job DBP, and thanks for your running description of the work as it progressed. You never know who you may have inspired.

Originally Posted by Rocker

Don,

I think, if the leg profile is too small to screw the dowelling jig to it, you could temporarily attach it with hot-melt glue, and perhaps support it with blocks clamped against the leg. You might have to make another dowelling jig, if you can't detach it cleanly. But I think it is worth pushing the envelope to try to rescue a project that you have spent so much time and effort on. I think you will find, if you can get the reclination angle right, that the rocker will turn out to be comfortable after all - I go and sit in mine if I am feeling stressed, and all the tension drains right away

Rocker

Sounds feasible. Let me sleep on this for a few days. I guess my fear is that it won't work, then I'll have nothing to show for the effort but a chair.

Dumb question - could you (carefully) bore the holes with a brace & bit, using visual guides and a helper?

Probably; but it would still be easier to achieve the required accuracy by routing using my dowelling jig, see http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=35290 .

Rocker

Ahh yesss, Grasshopper.

Don,

I think your rockers are way too flat (straight). If there were more curves on them then the weight of the back (centre of gravity) can pull the chair back to a better angle. At the moment your chair is like standing on a flat surface.

There is a disadvantage with gluing the legs and the rockers together first. There is no way to know if the rockers work unless the chair is fully assembled. If you build the chair first and place it on the rockers at the end then you can still make adjustments by adding more blocks to the rockers if necessary.