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Just couldn't resist an offer of pile of ¼" plywood sheets.

Following James Cole brilliant design I created a stack lamination rocker using jigsaw, all sort of sanders and lots of glue (¾ gallon).

This was an interesting journey. I was discovering qualities of the plywood I never noticed before creating a 3D object out of 2D sheets.

Mucking around with the chair left me lots of of cuts and some insights. I then decided to design my own furniture using stack lamination. This is how the oval coffee table came about.

From the table of cuts a sticky tape dispenser was born :)

Main disadvantage - of cuts are no good for firewood :(

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What a project, Dave ! It worths every minute of creating it.I don't hide that this idea was in mind for long long time but I knew the effort it needed it in addition to the time it may consumed. Nice design as well. CONGRATULATIONS. I like all of them in particular the chair.
 

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Very impressive work.
 

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Absolutely beautiful. You can't take you eyes off them and you can't focus. Your eyes just keep jumping from one detail/curve to another.

WOW!!!!!
 

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OUTSTANDING, Dave!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a very fine sculptor,sir!!!!!!
Those pieces are just super!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you carve with a 4 1/2" grinder??

Cheers, Jim
 

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Very, very cool. Really gets the imagination going.
 

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This is really really amazing. Thanks for sharing this
 

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Well done Dave. I like the free style! It's a one-of-a-kind!
RH
 

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Thanks guys for your kind words.

Sam, the original plan use 3/4 " sheets so I have to cut and glue x3 and alternate grain direction between pieces. All in all about 100 hours on the chair. I believe there is much more work in some of you segments works. PM me before you start :)

Jim, Yes I used 4 1/2" sanding disks on the angle grinder. I also use a belt sander, palm belt sander, orbital sander and sanding cylinders.
 

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wow that is a cool rocker. It looks great and is so very interesting and unique.
 

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Excellent! Very soon I will begin something like that. Thank you.
 

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A beautiful piece of work you have a Great design and super workman ship. Thanks for sharing.
 

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All I can say is WOW!
 

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Hello Dave

A very sweet design and I suppose a lot of dust !!!

Very impressive work
I love it

Thanks for sharing
 

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I like the chair, very cool looking and comfortable design too. Wow, thats a lot of work, but opens up many avanues of design.
 

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Truly amazing talent that shows up in every piece!
 

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I really like the rocker. How many sheets were used in total did you use for the chair?
 

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Some real nice work Dave, congrats on DT3
Pete
 

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Really innovative and unique. At first I thought 1/2" or 3/4" ply, but 1/4" that's some glue up. Very nice work.
 
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