Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Knitting, Life, woodworking on Feb 22nd, 2010
Mother Nature stomped all over our traces of spring this weekend, leaving behind five inches of snow and ice. I started the morning shoveling snow, not for the first time this winter. Dare I hope it will be the last?
Not.
I went to a woodworking show with Jack this weekend. Small by comparison to events [...]
Posted in woodworking on Aug 14th, 2009
The one, the only porch double-rocker made of mahogany and white oak residing at my house. This has already seen many hours of use over the last two weeks. It turned out just right. Low enough to the floor that my short little legs are comfortable, the seat angle and the curve of the back [...]
Posted in woodworking on Aug 5th, 2009
Now that the spines and the rocker/stretcher assembly are finished, it’s time to build the seat for the porch rocker. The seat will take 20 mahogany slats curving from the bottom to the back and attached to the spines with brass flat head screws.
Before cutting the slats to the proper length, the half-inch mahogany boards [...]
Posted in woodworking on Jul 27th, 2009
Back in the wood working shop….
Once the end assemblies were put together on the porch rocker, it was time to cut, shape and install the stretchers that attach the two ends and support the seat assembly itself. The stretchers are two pieces of one-inch mahogany cut 4 feet long and 2 inches wide which [...]
Posted in Spinning, woodworking on Jul 13th, 2009
When last we visited, our intrepid woodworker was getting ready to glue up the end piece assembly on our porch rocker. The stiles, cross brace and arm rest were ready to be assembled and attached to the rocker base.
In the course of construction Jack decided to turn the tenons into wedge tenons. This involves making [...]
Posted in woodworking on Jun 17th, 2009
There has been progress on the porch rocker this week. The four legs and two cross rails have been cut out of mahogany and the mortises and tenons to join all the pieces have been shaped.
While the initial carving out of the mortise can be done on a drill press, they have to be finished [...]
Posted in woodworking on May 27th, 2009
Back in March I mentioned that Jack was planning to build a porch rocker for our deck as his next big project. To give you a break from peony and cat pictures, I thought you might like to see some of the construction process. (We got the plans from this website.
I’m not a woodworker but [...]
