Thread: WIP - Maloof inspired rocker

Congratulations to you and your wife Andy. It's amazing how much time babies consume. Glad to hear all is well.

cheers,

ajw

Congratulations - enjoy these early days because they pass so quickly. The chair can wait.

A lovely piece of news! Congratulations to you and your lovely wife.

Alan...

Was wondering what had happened to the project, congrats

Congratulations to both of you, Andy. You are now entering the greatest part of your life.

Congratulations to you and your wife Andy, now the fun begins I can tell that as your message was done at 4;30AM today, thats baby time for sure. Hope all is well.
As said the WIP can wait.
Cheers, Ian

Congratulations to you and your wife, Andy, and welcome to the next phase of your life. You have it all in front of you now. Enjoy every minute of it.

Some worldly advice from an old parent. My experience with three daughters would suggest that when she gets to 13 years of age, you put her out on agistment in someone else's paddock, and get her back when she turns about 22 yrs. That's about when they start to become human again, returning to normality

Andy congratulations to you both.

I also have three daughters and totally agree with Dengue.

Ross

Baby girl, what baby girl?
no photo, no belief!

Originally Posted by Dengue

Congratulations to you and your wife, Andy, and welcome to the next phase of your life. You have it all in front of you now. Enjoy every minute of it.

Some worldly advice from an old parent. My experience with three daughters would suggest that when she gets to 13 years of age, you put her out on agistment in someone else's paddock, and get her back when she turns about 22 yrs. That's about when they start to become human again, returning to normality

Originally Posted by old1955

Andy congratulations to you both.

I also have three daughters and totally agree with Dengue.

Ross

Likewise 3 daughters but also 3 sisters, 6 nieces .......... and finally a grandaughter and grandSON!
life's a wonderful place.

fletty

I think daughter are easier than sons...We have 3 daughters and 3 grandsons....

Andy, there seems to be another theme running here... COME ON, you're a proud dad; were are the photos?? Peter

Congratulation on the birth of your first child.

Thank you for all the comments. The last 3 months have gone so fast with plenty of early morning wake ups!

I obviously didn't get to finish the chair in time. I fussed over the seat for about a month towards the end of last year trying to figure out how I'd shape the front (pommel). I'd rather take my time than rush it and not be happy.

So I haven't worked on the chair for almost 4 months now but things have settled enough at home to get a few hours in the workshop. I'm hoping to get into the shop this week and rather than fuss over the seat shape, I'll glue the front and rear legs to the seat and begin sculpting and blending them into the seat. Then I'll come back to the seat shape later.

So this is where I'm up to now. Legs and arms are roughly sculpted and dry fitted. I'll glue the legs up next and once dry, begin blending in the leg to seat transition.

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I also got a rotary angle sander to help sculpt the chair. It can be fitted with various grits (I'll use 26 grit) and it grinds away wood really fast. But what I really like is that it has dust extraction which the galahad wheels fitted to a grinder doesn't have.

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