In the fall of 2014 I told my wife I’d build her a rocking chair of her choice for us to rock our soon to be born baby in (this was our first child and he was born in April 2015). After looking at a few styles she chose a morris chair. What follows is a few blog posts I wrote at the time...
I’ve only helped to build a couple of chairs and none were rockers, so I did a decent amount of research before coming up with a design. The one I settled on is pretty close to an old Stickley design, with a few proportional changes. I decided to build two chairs, one a rocker and one not. Given the time involved in set-up and the jigs to be made, I guessed it would only add another 1/3 of the time to build a second chair. The second chair will be for sale when they’re done.
I purchased the quarter-sawn white oak lumber from Sears Trostel in Fort Collins- they had a great selection and I picked through it to get the best boards I could find. For fabric we chose an authentic William Morris design printed in England by Laura’s Beau. For a William Morris fabric the price was fantastic and they somehow had it affordably shipped here in 3 business days. How is that possible?
Through a number of posts I’ll show some of the progress of the chairs…