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Location: Arcade, NY
Website: http://www.nyrockingchairs.com
I grew up in Delaware, went to school in Colorado Springs, did some more school back in Delaware, finished school, got a job for Northrop Grumman in Baltimore, MD. My last year at UD I met my wife and after climbing the property ladder a few times in Maryland we finally got a transfer with the company I work for to Buffalo, NY. She is from Rochester and all of her family is spread out from Rochester to the Adirondacks.
After moving up to Buffalo we became pregnant with our first child, it was then I decided to look into building rocking chairs. I had always just dabbled with woodworking, a couple tables, chests, etc. I liked doing the chairs so much I started a business, made a web site, found some local galleries to carry my chairs and other pieces and before too long I was selling my pieces and getting commissioned for more, that is very exciting.
So when I am not working FT as a design engineer or working in the wood shop, I spend my summers trout fishing and heading out to the Adirondacks to sit around staring at the lake. During the winter I am a member of the Kissing Bridge Ski Patrol, one of the local ski places, and of course snow-mobiling is big out here.
We have two sons now who are growing like weeds. We have 2 german shephards, 50 fish and a bearded dragon. Also anywhere from 100 to 2000 lobster roaches to feed said bearded dragon, but they are not really pets.
If you are ever in the Buffalo area, be sure to look us up!
-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com
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| added blog entry | Hal Taylor Rocking Chair #10: New book and toys, err I mean tools | 19 days ago |
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| commented on | Hal Taylor Rocking Chair #7: Front leg joints and arms attached | 23 days ago |
| started topic | Looking to swap a chair for a desk and shelves... | 67 days ago |
| added project | Maple and Walnut lamp | 119 days ago |
| commented on | Maple Baby Crib | 126 days ago |
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Hal’s new book and plan templates arrived the other week. Since I am gearing up to complete two customer chairs by xmas this was a welcome change. The book is longer, contains some new hints, details and is actually simpler in many ways th...
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So today is the last day of assembly. After the epoxy sets up overnight, the leg/rocker joints gets sanded and then the chair gets final sanded and finished… Starting out I took my belt sander to the top of the back legs to give them the...
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Welcome again to another edition of Hal Taylor Rocking Chair building… After attaching the arms and shaping their joints I flip the chair over and sand out the leg-seat joints on the bottom. This way even when the customer flips the chai...
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Ok. So on Friday I glued the four legs to the seat. Now it is time to clean up all the joints and make them look great. So after glue up, our front leg to seat joint looks like: So I break out my trusty Lancelot carving disc on the rig...
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Seems every week there is a real life setback, this week was no exception with my wife succumbing to the head cold I had two weeks ago. She is better now. On a shop note I have another commissioned job that is due the same time as this, so ins...
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Hello NYRockingChairs,
Welcome to LJs. I hope that you will find this to be an exciting and rewarding part of your woodworking journey.
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Great looking chairs!
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hey fellow western newyorker. hey, seeing that we are pretty close to each other. I was wondering if you had any advice on where to get lumber. I’m new to wood working. I’m really just setting up shop. I am looking to start purchacing rough cut lumber soon. I was looking at quaker mill, niagrara lumber, and advantage. Any advice on these mills or any other local mills would be very appriciated. thanks.
those are some beautiful chairs by the way!
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