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An article on building this table can now be downloaded free from my blog: http://rockerswoodwork.blogspot.com/

David Dundas

A Creeker who had seen my article in the current issue (November 2011) of Wood Magazine on a zigzag rocker (see also this thread:...

An article describing this rocker is now published in the current issue of Wood Magazine (November 2011). In view of this publication, I have removed the article from my blog, referred to in Post#13...

Jonathan,

I am afraid I didn't record the build time for this rocker, but I would guess somewhere around 80 hours, but this is dependent upon how much effort you put in for sculpting and rounding...

I have posted plans and instructions for building this rocker that I designed in posts attached to another thread in the General Woodworking forum:...

Here are photos 22-29.

David Dundas

Here are photos 17-21.

David Dundas

Here are Photos 12-16.

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Here are Photos 7-11.

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Here are Photos 2-6

I am posting the plans and instructions for this rocker, and will post photos of the building process in following posts. If you copy the plan pdfs to a CD, you can get a plan printer to print the...

Fred,

See post #19 above.

David Dundas

Jonathan,

Hope all goes well with building this rocker. I suggest that you use a wood comparable in strength to maple; I am not sure that cherry or walnut would be strong enough. Also, be sure to...

This chair was one of 65 pieces that were selected in the Studio Furniture Competition 2008 to be exhibited in the Bungendore Gallery near Canberra, Australia.

I have posted inch and metric...

Mike,

Thanks for the kind words. It is gratifying to know that over 4700 people have downloaded the free plans of jigs from my blog.

David Dundas

If you don't want to take the trouble to make your own floating tenon stock, you can always get the set of metric spiral upcut bits available from Woodcraft to rout the mortises, and use dominoes for...

Chris,

I am the one wearing white shorts, standing on the far end of the board. Unfortunately, my videographer cut off the torsos of the testers so as to ensure that the whole of the frame was...

Michael,

As you have noted, my Z dining chair's miter joints are made with three reinforcing locking tenons, rather than splines. An individual miter joint made in Tasmanian blackwood with...

There is a You-tube video of the destructive testing of miter joints here: http://www.youtube.com/user/bitingmidge . The delay in posting it is due to the fact that I have had open-heart surgery in...

Mike,

Yes; my last post was slightly inaccurate; the article on the Z-table and chairs was actually published in the Decmber2007/January2008 issue of Router and Power Woodworking, and presumably...

Apologies for again partially highjacking this thread, but I am happy to report that my surgery on January 26th went well, and I hope to have another decade or more of woodworking life ahead of me,...

Don,

I have plans on a CD for a Maloof style rocker with an upholstered seat at a fraction of the price of the plans you mention. You can find a link to them on my blog:...

The plans for my mortising jig can now be downloaded free from my blog at http://rockerswoodwork.blogspot.com .

David Dundas

Eddie,

Here are a couple close-up pics of the ruptured joints. As mentioned above, one of the joints is still virtually intact, while the other broke along the glue lines.

Mike,

You can...

At a recent woodworkers' get-together held in Brisbane, Australia, we tested a zigzag frame to destruction; the intention was to ascertain the ultimate strength of the frame, which has a similar...