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Title: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 29, 2016, 07:06:53 PM

A major part of the fixing up of the Temple of Gramma on Mylochka's part was having a nice deck built - porch sittin' is a major family social activity in the right seasons, to the extent that out front of a Lowe's Hardware a few years ago, Mylochka asked me if she should pick up a couple of the medium-quality rocking chairs they were selling for $100.
 
"No" I told her, reasoning that they would get used all right, but as outdoor furniture with a finite lifespan, it was just too much to pay.  -Well, recently Momma found one that the price was right; a neighbor was going to throw it away.
 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1397)
The wicker seat and back were in sad condition and that blue paint would have to go.  I can weave a nice jute seat in a chair - macramé skillz left over from the seventies, and I've done it any number of times before, though nothing so large and not rocking chairs.  The biggest challenge is not having enough rope on hand, and the roll is going to be a pain to work with.  This isn't even much of a skill job - just elbow grease and persistence.

Speaking of which, Mylochka had a lot of prep work in front of her:
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1400)
-Cutting the seat and back out under Frida's supervision...

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1398)
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1399)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1401)

And one leg needed gluing back into place - a little wood glue, a rope-and-stick cinch to make up for not having elaborate clampage, and a 24-hour wait, and that was taken care of.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1402)

Then an arduous stripping job commenced.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1403)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1404)

-She's finally gotten it done to her satisfaction and varnished.  I need to take a picture of that before I commence the seat weaving...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 29, 2016, 07:27:22 PM

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1405)
 
That warped dowel on the left back is going to be a problem when I get to that stage...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 29, 2016, 11:45:51 PM

So, I'm ready to get started.
 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1430)
 
Let's see how much of the seat 100 feet of this stuff will cover...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Rusty Edge on August 29, 2016, 11:52:29 PM

I was wondering about that curved dowel.  I see that the dogs are supervising.

My dog was supervising cats today. First, the sacred cat started gnawing on some paper on the table. We yelled at it, but it ignored us, naturally. So the dog stood on her hind legs and yelled at the cat until it complied. Then, we came home from shopping with a rotisserie chicken, which summoned the dog and two of the cats by the pure power of fragrance. The dog helpfully volunteered to keep the cats, which were on the kitchen counter by now, from getting too close to the chicken as we were attempting to plate. I rewarded her with some chicken skin.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 30, 2016, 01:31:13 AM

Beginning is easy enough - tie one end and go back and forth doing larksheads at each end.
 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1431)
 
I'll take another picture when I've got that done.  -Right now the challenge is handling the roll, which is bulky to fit between the front slats, and becoming a tangled mess.  I don't remember how I handled that part in the old days, aside from I've mostly done it with scrap line a cousin got at work at a furniture mill that had tied up bundles of cotton stuffing, and I tied a lot of much shorter bits together.  I'd rather not have a lot of wasteful cuts and knots in this -weak points, too, I should think- but handling 100 feet through each pass and each knot is a real girldog to work with...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 30, 2016, 03:46:12 AM

Spindle - now I remember how I did it for my brother 12 years ago, for a bunch of old chairs that came down in his wife's family with a bunch of store-bought rope.  You haveta wind it on a stout stick to get it all thin enough to weave.
 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1432)
 
There's about six feet, or around enough to do a row sideways and back, before Mylochka's going to have to get me more...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Unorthodox on August 30, 2016, 04:34:40 PM

Sisal?

Isn't that a bit pokey?  (or maybe mine was lower quality)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 30, 2016, 04:45:39 PM

Pokey?  Like scratchy?

I guess it might be if you weren't wearing pants.  I've done a million of these over the years with the same or similar material, and never had any trouble like that or any other - it works surprisingly well.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Unorthodox on August 30, 2016, 09:40:40 PM

Yeah, scratchy.  I know my hands were raw by the time I finished Jim, and swore to only use hemp in the future for such things. 

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 30, 2016, 09:48:43 PM

It IS rough on the hands, yes.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Spacy on August 30, 2016, 11:32:58 PM

Cool project

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 30, 2016, 11:39:13 PM

I messed up pretty bad -not the only time I made this mistake, but it's been a long time- in cinching the first direction kinda tight.  That makes this part very difficult...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 31, 2016, 04:44:08 AM

I do wish I hadn't made the forward and back setup so tight - as you weave, the thing tightens up, and I could have had a MUCH easier time with this and woven it denser, w/ less gaps.

The initial hundred feet of rope had enough left over to weave back and forth once, with a little left over.  Mylochka ran out and got 300 more feet in 50-foot coils, and I got back on it around noon.

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1440)

I made -I think it's called a shuttlecock, but I've got no formal training (or informal; just worked all this out for myself) in weaving- out of a piece of plywood, and that helped a lot, since I've had to go between the lines vertically, and this was thinner than wound around a stick, and less prone to rope sliding off the tool.

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1441)

This is at the end of the first new 50' of line, and the bare shuttlewhatsis.

After this, I cut off approximately 15' and did the rest w/ bare rope tool-less, 'cause it was running out of room - I needed to finish a time across and do across and back twice more.

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1442)

I had a little left over, that I wrapped around on the left until I'm done with everything and decide whether I have enough line left over to do something fancy/decorative on the sides.

Naturally, I've sit-tested, and am satisfied.  That sucker's tight as a drum, and feels fine under that butt...

---

Tomorrow, I start figuring out what I'm doing with the back of the chair...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: gwillybj on August 31, 2016, 05:48:40 AM

 :clap: ;excite;

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Rusty Edge on August 31, 2016, 07:43:39 AM

Nice!

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 31, 2016, 01:13:55 PM

I'm planning to get a little fancy with the back...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Mylochka on August 31, 2016, 04:22:29 PM

Looks great!!!  :D

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Unorthodox on August 31, 2016, 06:21:51 PM

My hands scream out in pain just looking at that.  (tendonitis, not the sisal) 

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 31, 2016, 06:37:32 PM

It is a trial...
 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1443)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 31, 2016, 10:43:12 PM

I'm taking a picture every time I use up a rope roll.
 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1444)


Here it is w/ the vertical on the back finished, from the front:
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1445)


And here it is at the end of the roll:
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1446)

-Before I tie in the next 50', I need to redo the last five rows; what I tried there doesn't look like anything...
 
 
I left a lot of slack in the verticals; I do not recall it being so impossible to pack rows tighter together.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 01, 2016, 04:22:26 PM

Here it is with the rows redone:
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1447)

I should take a shot of when I knocked off last night before I resume work...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 01, 2016, 07:07:09 PM

Here's where I knocked off for the night last night...

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1448)

...It was getting late.

I was on the last row before I went to lunch.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 01, 2016, 10:45:41 PM

I'm done with the weaving and have tied the ends and cut the excess:
 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1450)
 
Not as fancy as I had hoped to do going in - and I'm going over it yet to straighten lines and get spacing just so before I call it done.  -Like the seat, as you may have noticed in the shots of the back in progress, straight on in closeup is the least flattering viewing angle.  I suspect the design I worked into the middle of the back will actually stand out more and look better in an angled view.
 
At any rate, it's an old worn rocking chair that didn't sand out all that pristine for varnishing, and it's intended for porch duty - any flaws in my contribution are probably fitting to the nature of the thing; one of my wimminz had an art teacher many years ago who'd call a flawed student sculptural effort "organic"...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: gwillybj on September 01, 2016, 11:52:57 PM

Barely looks like the same chair.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 02, 2016, 12:41:13 AM

I know, right?

Blue really doesn't suit a rocking chair, somehow...

Title: BREAKING NEWS: Truce Called in Rocking Chair / Long-Tailed Cat Feud
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 02, 2016, 01:16:05 AM

BREAKING NEWS: Truce Called in Rocking Chair / Long-Tailed Cat Feud
AC2 Fake News Service  1 September  7:54 P.M. EDT

 
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1457)
Goblin [ center ] negotiates a peace accord with the rocking chair [ everything else ].  "I'm very fierce and dangerous," she said.



Nobel committee take note; there is peace in our time between Cats and Rocking Chairs.

In a development rocking the world of kitty-furniture relations, a (future) long-tailed cat has negotiated peace between the long-rancorous scratched-up rocking chair and nervous feline communities.

"I'm planning to have a tail three or four feet long someday when I'm a giant fuzzy lion," said hero of the hour Goblin, age six weeks, "So when I walked into a new room to find my hippy messing with a rocking chair, I didn't get nervous; I got even."

"I'm all bite, no bark, and if there's a thing fuzzy lion princesses do well, it's woop ropes - and this thing was partly MADE of rope.  It was easy and fun," she said.

Goblin said she promised that if rocking chairs would lay off the tails in the future, cats would stop with the scratching furniture.  "Don't tell, but I was lying about that," she said.

Sources close to the rocking chair deny that she even promised.

Goblin said fuzzy lions grow to in excess of 2,000 pounds and have all-over manes.  "We're the color of old Halloween decorations to honor the horror our notorious biting inspires in our many victims, whether hippies, Hershey or Momma," she said.
 

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=17843.msg100241#msg100241 (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=17843.msg100241#msg100241)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 02, 2016, 04:39:43 PM

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1458) (http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1459)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: E_T on September 02, 2016, 05:51:04 PM

How do the kitty and the dog deal with each other??

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 02, 2016, 06:00:33 PM

They don't.  I'd introduce the two, but Mylochka is still too traumatized from Chula killing Hershey's litter-sister not a year ago...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 02, 2016, 11:19:12 PM

My wimminz say the chair is faboo.

I suggested doing something embroidery/cross stitch-like with yarn or something around the center design on the back, but Mylochka loves it like it is.

I need to take it up to the deck and get a photo in its natural habitat...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Rusty Edge on September 03, 2016, 12:23:59 AM

My wife says "he finished it with help from the kitty."

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 03, 2016, 01:18:38 AM

That little so-and-so didn't do a LICK of work...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Spacy on September 03, 2016, 01:31:16 AM

His job was motivational in nature... not manual labor

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: E_T on September 03, 2016, 04:13:56 AM

She was doing the play to balance your work...  you know, all work and no play...  :p

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Rusty Edge on September 18, 2016, 07:09:07 PM

Still waiting on the rocking chair in it's natural habitat photo, and a report on how it's working. Did it need to be adjusted?

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 19, 2016, 12:39:00 AM

Mylochka's a lot more satisfied with it than I am.  It's still in the basement so far; I don't know why.  I'll get that picture when it's been placed...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 07, 2016, 03:54:22 PM

I finally found one of my old efforts from my youth.  Coincidentally, a rocking chair, but one toddler-scale, one of Grampa's junk salvages.  (We still have my baby rocker somewhere, and my brother and sister's, but they still have the original seats.)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1547)

That seat's about 1' square, and done in soft/slightly stretchy nylon macramé rope, and as you can see, I was able to weave it pretty dense.

---

I've wanted all along to take picture of some of my early seat works - there's got to be at least 10 old straight wooden assembly line worker chairs around, salvaged from a local furniture mill, almost all done in similar jute to what I used on the big rocker recently, but pieced together from shortish lengths that had tied bails of furniture stuffing cotton.  I seriously doubt many have been thrown out, so I can't imagine where they've all gotten to.  They used to be everywhere in the basement...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 07, 2016, 04:00:34 PM

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1548)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: E_T on October 08, 2016, 07:47:09 PM

I like the two tone of the weaving...  Now all you need to do is Dye the Base Rope in Orange add Blue and then we will have a good looking seat...  ;runaway

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 08, 2016, 08:02:48 PM

The synthetic fiber rope won't take a dyeing, I'm sure.  -But that seat there's been that way gettin' on 40 years, so it might just disintegrate...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: E_T on October 08, 2016, 08:20:32 PM

Quote from: BUncle on October 08, 2016, 08:02:48 PM

The synthetic fiber rope won't take a dyeing, I'm sure.  -But that seat there's been that way gettin' on 40 years, so it might just disintegrate...

What about a soft Jute or Hemp??  Shoot, referb chairs in Team Colors... and sell them... if you get a good color variety, could do custom orders...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on October 08, 2016, 08:26:21 PM

Yeah - I kinda the seat that's already there too much to go to the work of completely replacing it, which is what you're talking about now.

-I just wish a few more people would throw out salvageable rocking chairs.  Mylochka has been saying same for over a month.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 22, 2017, 10:16:24 PM

I'd forgotten that I'd taken pictures back in early January, but here's a bit of rustic carpentry my brother did, waiting for me to put a seat in.

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1889) (http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1890)

I'll post shots of the progress as I get them processed...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Spacy on May 22, 2017, 10:40:54 PM

Are they comfy?  The back looks like it wouldn't be, and if I am guessing the proportions right, not much in the way of padding?

Cool look though, using wood with the bark on it still.  Was it kiln dried by any chance?  If not, you worried about cracks and splits?

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 22, 2017, 10:55:55 PM

I'm not aware of him making any more since this set, despite them drawing a lot of positive attention at the art center - I pointed out that the wood he was using was relatively green, and that that was sure to cause problems.   I've no idea how it's aged at the gallery in the last four+ months, but I believe he's waiting 'til late summer for all the wood he cut last year to age.

He's not married to never using a power tool or fancy process a woodsman/pioneer wouldn't have had - but he does try to avoid that sort of thing, as it seems like cheating.  -So no kiln, no.

It's comfortable for what it is.  The point's not much functionality...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 22, 2017, 11:38:29 PM

So I got to work-

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1891)
Note Moses underneath, where he'd been "helping".

A view from behind.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1892)

Then a kid-scale chair showed up.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1893)


(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1895)
Goblin, seen here in the act of "helping".  Those two go into a positive frenzy when I'm weaving sisu seats.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1896)

The big seat finally done, Goblin finishes her inspection.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1897)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1898)

Mylochka had a shift minding the art gallery the following Saturday, so I wove the seat for the little chair right there in the shop.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=1894)
It's sorta fun to do my crap for an audience at the shop and answer questions.  I hope it doesn't seem rude that I fail to stop working and look at them much - but a couple asked how to contact Buster's Daddy to commission a set of chairs for their deck...  I haven't heard if anything ever came of that, but these two chairs led to me getting a commission to put a seat in another rocking chair.

Now I have to figure out wicker.  She pulled a bit of a bait-and-switch one me...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Spacy on May 23, 2017, 12:57:05 AM

Eh, kilns for ceramics are 1000's of years old.  For wood I don't know how long they have been in use, but 100's I would bet.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Spacy on May 23, 2017, 12:58:21 AM

Good luck with the wicker!

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 19, 2017, 12:11:00 AM

The long-delayed pics of the rocking chair in its natural habitat.

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2506)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2505)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Geo on November 19, 2017, 10:01:06 PM

Looks reasonably comfy.

Why don't we see someone enjoying it? And when will the second... third... fourth cousin join it? ;)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 19, 2017, 10:38:21 PM

Second... third... fourth cousin?  Join it?

What?

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 20, 2017, 12:34:59 AM

At any rate, this showed up in the house over a month ago,

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2508)  (http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2509)

-and I finally gave up on waiting for Buster's Daddy to say anything about it yesterday, and set to work.  Seat's about 3/4 done, and in-progress pics coming soon.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 20, 2017, 01:16:52 AM

So here's what I got done yesterday, with the new shuttle-thingy I had to make this afternoon - the old one's gone missing.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2510)
I managed to leave a lot of slack in the columns -which turns out not to be entirely a good thing- and tried a fancier weave...


Here's a couple hours later.
(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2511)
I decided to go for a zig-zag pattern; I keep making creative/practical decisions on this one that make it more work for me.  The long thin shuttlecock is probably way too long...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Geo on November 20, 2017, 09:24:43 AM

Quote from: BUncle on November 19, 2017, 10:38:21 PM

Second... third... fourth cousin?  Join it?

What?

I meant, when are you going to continue building rocking chairs so the one on the porch doesn't look so lonely?

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 20, 2017, 02:25:47 PM

Still waiting for more chairs to be thrown out...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 20, 2017, 07:00:33 PM

When I resumed work, Moses was "helping" by doing some product testing...

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2512)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2513)

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 20, 2017, 07:17:23 PM

The finished seat.

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2514)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2515)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2516)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2517)


And upstairs, Carmen tries it out.

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2518)  (http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2519)



-Now to get a before pic of the little rocking chair - that woman never came through with the wicker supplies she promised, and obviously don't know what she wants, so I'm gonna do it with some smooth cord and be done with it...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: ColdWizard on November 20, 2017, 07:21:40 PM

You must be very proud to have your work approved by Inspector Moses.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 20, 2017, 09:21:48 PM

Oh yes. ;nod

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Geo on November 20, 2017, 10:48:00 PM

What weight do you think the seat could hold?
I'm assuming a human can't sit in it without getting acquinted with the floor real fast.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 21, 2017, 01:09:38 AM

Quote from: Geo on November 20, 2017, 10:48:00 PM

What weight do you think the seat could hold?
I'm assuming a human can't sit in it without getting acquinted with the floor real fast.

The rest of the chair will give out before the seat does.  Anyway, 100kg of me has sit-tested it, and it seemed fine...

Some rocking chair pics pending...

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 21, 2017, 02:35:14 AM

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2521) (http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2522)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2520)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2523)

(http://alphacentauri2.info/MGalleryItem.php?id=2524)

I'm going to have to space the rows out a lot more than that - it's my last bundle of the cord pictured halfway used up, from Big Lots, so no getting more.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Geo on November 21, 2017, 07:47:29 AM

A pity, I like the pattern of the seat.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 21, 2017, 02:10:56 PM

It worked out pretty well.  Pics later.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 21, 2017, 06:35:54 PM

I'm about as content as I get for this kind of thing, considering the circumstances.

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Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 21, 2017, 06:57:26 PM

My sketchy right shoulder is really hurting from all this, by the way.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Spacy on November 21, 2017, 09:54:20 PM

How much stretch do you think the rocker has with the nylon cordage?

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Geo on November 21, 2017, 10:09:01 PM

It turned out beautiful from where I stand.

Title: Re: Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 21, 2017, 10:27:06 PM

I can never look at this kind of work without seeing flaws, but yeah.

Quote from: Spacy on November 21, 2017, 09:54:20 PM

How much stretch do you think the rocker has with the nylon cordage?

This stuff has a lot more give than the sisu -which is zero- but it's pretty low.  No stretch to speak of when I sit-tested.