Puttin' a seat in the ol' rockin' chair

[Rusty Edge]

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

[Buster's Uncle]

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

[Spacy]

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

[E_T]

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

[Rusty Edge]

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?

[Buster's Uncle]

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...

[Buster's Uncle]

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.)



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.

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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...

[Buster's Uncle]

[E_T]

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

[Buster's Uncle]

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...

[E_T]

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...

[Buster's Uncle]

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.

[Buster's Uncle]

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.



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

[Spacy]

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?

[Buster's Uncle]

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...