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Tina's chair

comments (3) April 20th, 2010 in Reader's Gallery

mansfieldsdesigns mansfieldsdesigns, member
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I sculped this black walnut and white oak rocker for my recently widowed sister.

The rockers are of the Maloof style, but all else seemed to come to life from my original sketches and hand tools.


Design or Plan used: My own design - mansfieldsdesigns
posted in: Reader's Gallery, , walnut, white oak, oil, rocking chair, sculpting
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mansfieldsdesigns mansfieldsdesigns writes: Thanks for the comments fellas!!
Troutrx, I used white oak as ascent pieces in the rockers as well....there are [6] layers of figured walnut on the rockers and [1] of white oak sandwiched in the middle. Also, there are single white oak pieces between the rockers and legs [sim. to the wonderful Sam Maloof rocking chairs], and one piece that caps the top of the chair back. The finish is several coats of Tung oil w/ a sprinkling of boiled linseed oil on the first two coats. Paste wax was rubbed in after the oil dried. Prior to finish, the whole chair was meticulously sanded to 1500 grit. The general idea of this design was to avoid any square surfaces.
Posted: 11:41 pm on April 21st

Troutrx Troutrx writes: Awesome. The strip of oak down the center of each back rail is neat. It really shows the color of the walnut. Did you use oak anywhere else on the chair. What did you use to finish the chair. I keep playing with the idea to "sculpt" a chair. Wonderful work. Thanks for sharing.
Posted: 11:00 am on April 21st

gumbyteeth04 gumbyteeth04 writes: Wow!! You've done a beautiful job on this. Great conours & curves. Thanks for sharing.

Dan
Posted: 12:21 am on April 21st

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