Bryan you do make it all look so easy.Nice chair.
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04-04-2012, 11:28 PM #11
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04-05-2012, 09:38 AM #12
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Making the first one was hard as I couldn't find a plan for this Texas style I liked ( oversize with large legs). Borrowed dimensions from a Mississippi Porch rocker plan (hickory bark seat) to make the Texas style. This is the 5th large rocker I have built. I aslo shrunk my plan to make a kid size version. Made 4 of these little ones back in 2008, last one I tried the curved back. This one we kept
Originally Posted by Rob Keeble
Bryan you do make it all look so easy. Nice chair.
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Last edited by Bryan Cowing; 04-05-2012 at 09:42 AM.
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04-05-2012, 11:53 AM #13
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Bryan are you going to harmonize the color of the new one through use of whatever finish and dyes or is it going to show the various wood types when done?
Sent from my MB860 using TapatalkRob .....Alias John Wayne now Pasquinell da trapper.
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04-05-2012, 09:20 PM #14
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Management looked at the chair today and told me to use the same stain as the fireplace, handrails, kitchen cupboards in the house ( dark walnut). Once I get the knobs turned and glued on, and a final sand, I will stain it. Probably got to be a shiny finish too! Originally Posted by Rob Keeble
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04-06-2012, 04:32 PM #15
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glued up 3/4" jabota for knobs, next, sand, wipe on a coat of stain.
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04-06-2012, 06:34 PM #16
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1 coat of stain on, dark walnut and some red mahogany mixed in, was running low on stain.
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04-06-2012, 08:59 PM #17
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Considering the variety of woods you used, the color came out looking pretty consistent.
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04-06-2012, 10:40 PM #18
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Bryan it amazes me how you manage to get the color to be so even.
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04-06-2012, 11:03 PM #19
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Boris K would be proud of you!
That is a dang nice chair...good looking, fun and well built. I wish I could do as well.
Enjoy,
JimBFirst of all you have to be smarter than the machine.
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04-07-2012, 01:08 AM #20
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flash pic shows the red in the jabota still shows. Be nice to have enough to do the seat slats. I have enough if I resaw and laminate it to another wood. I don't like the fir I used, trouble with splintering. I think I will change it. Originally Posted by Rob Keeble
Bryan it amazes me how you manage to get the color to be so even.
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