again, Id like to thank Tom for pointing me to a set of plans I could model after.
Alot of tweaking, since Im not using round tenons, or pegs on the legs with overlapping the rockers.(nor will the back slats be jointed with round tenons)
So I decided to get under way, work a couple of hours, and looked around the garage.....its gotta be Ipe, yeah, Im beginning the stuff all over again, and pressure treated pine, cause thats all I have alot of in the garage, not enough red cedar, redwood or mahogany, and Im not going to buy anything.
If I suceed with this chair, it will be given as a present to someone who is very kind to my wife, and myself, and is rather up there in age. 85+.
I thought about just using oak, since I have alot of it, but I know this lovely lady would be happier with a nice outdoor rocker, and I have to make sure it stands up to weather.
Just that ipe, man, I have the ipe dust in my socks already.
Ran into my first problems already.
First, I dont own a router table, so the rounded tenons are out. I dont own a bandsaw, and thats gonna hurt alot, but I dont think a bandsaw blade will cut threw Ipe unless its made for metal. Third, I dont own a trammel. Nor did I even know what one is(no laughing rennie or ned) I had to look it up, cause I thought a trammel was a person that was living 4.7 miles north northeast of the munchkin village along the yellow brick road, cause its just something I never used or heard of. Trammel,.,.hmmmmmmmmm nice item.(talk about the inexperienced woodworker)
so, I improvised a bit.
Already busted 2 bosch jigsaw blades trying to get it to cut through both rockers of 5/4 ipe together.
Ill have to do one at a time, using a metal jigsaw blade, and belt sand and fine sand together, getting a nice curve and hopefully as close to identical as possible.(cutting together offers a real big advantage)
I could have trimmed up the 5/4 ipe to 3/4, but I wanted to use same thickness as legs, and MT joint it all together.
one rocker cut, I made a pattern out of 1/2 inch mdf, to get started.
Just showing some woodworking, not world class stuff, but making alot of dust., an awful amount of dust.
cut 8 pieces of wood on the TS, mitre saw took me 10 minutes.
Took me almost 2 hours to cut out pattern and one rocker.