Hal Taylor Rocker

Beautiful looking chair. Congrats on the award, well deserved.

-- Paul

Wauuuuuuuu, what a wonderful rocker, now it’s time for some rock!
So well made and details to cry for.
Best thoughts,
MaFe

-- Mad F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking.

Great job there

How many hours did it take to make?
If you don’t mind me asking how much did the chair sell for?

Good job, it’s a great chair! Hal’s plans, book and video are all top notch east to follow, it seems that anyone that follows his plans comes out with a beautiful chair.

Looking forward to see your next chair!

-- Paul Lemiski, Ontario Canada, Custom Wooden Rocking chairs and tables http://www.canadianwoodworks.com

Very nice job.

-- Robert - Visit my woodworking blog: http://littlegoodpieces.wordpress.com

That is a wonderful Chair.
i would love one. :)
Jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can see why it took best of show, very good work, and good luck on making your own individual changes to
make it your chair. Can not wait to see the results. Keep up the good work and have fun. I like your two
hand braces and the shoulder drill hanging to the left of your garage door. A man with similar tastes must be
very smart.

As ever, Gus, the 71 year young laborer, trying to become a carpenters apprentice.

-- As ever, Gus-the 74 yr young apprentice carpenter

Paul, this chair took about 3 months of weekends, missing a few days here and there. If I could put an hour length on it, I would have to say between 100 to 130 hours. And the chair sold for three thousand. I was happy to get it. It was fun, and the money was fun to get too. I must admit though, it was rough letting go. :)

-- John Morris

Oooooooohhhhhhhh! Those curves ! Vunderbar!

-- Don, Somerset UK, http://www.donjohnson24.co.uk

Paul from Acton, I gotta agree with you a hundred percent. A lot of folks I think are selling themselves short if they think this project is out of their league. With Hals book and templates, I felt very secure building this chair. I am not going to say it was easy, but nothing was beyond the typical woodworkers skills. If you can swipe a hand plane across wood, if your comfortable with router work, and your a stickler for precise table saw work, your ready to build the chair then. That’s not to say your not going to encounter fatal errors, they happen, there are plenty of “Come to Jesus” moments in the execution of the chair, where you get so far with a component of the chair, and you need to make that one last precise cut, and you blow it, a lot of it can end up in the fireplace. But most small errors are correctable, and the master himself Hal will show you how to fix those up. He has made his big share of mistakes too. And through the years, he has learned to disguise them or make them go away. I feel I was either very fortunate, or very lucky that I had virtually zero errors in this build, I had one joint that I didn’t like to much, fortunately it was on the bottom of the chair, and Hal showed me how to disguise it, it almost disappeared. No one even knows it’s there but me.

-- John Morris

It is one of my woodworking dreams to build one of these chairs. They are beautiful and strong looking. One question, are they as comfortable as they look? I have never actually been around one, seen one, much less sat in one.

Great job, I hope I can do as well on my first attempt.

-- The view only changes for the leading dog.

And thanks guys for the wonderful comments, nothing like an ego booster from fellow woodworkers to start the day off with! Happy Halloween all.

-- John Morris

Love this incredibly beautiful rocker. :) I never have enough wood for building something like that.

-- Homer : "Oh, and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain."

toxico, this chair is the most comfortable chair I have ever sat in, it was made for humans no doubt. The lumbar support is incredible, the arms are at the perfect height, and it rocks well with out the fear of falling backwards. Toxico, build it! It does wonders for the soul to build this project. My whole family became involved in it at one time or another, my 5 year old son helped me build it with his plastic tool set, he’d jump up on the work bench with his tools and stick by my side for hours on end. My wife would come out and help me with grain placement, my daughters would chime in and make suggestions, it was just a really neat thing to do for all. Cool things happen when building these chairs, I can hardly wait to build the second one.

-- John Morris