Mulberry Rocker

Very nice chair!! I have never built a rocker before. I hear they are quite nerve racking and a whole different level of woodworking.

-- Michael Mills, North Carolina, http://www.scicaskets.com

Nice, I just started to get into chairs again and I am in the process of building one Nice job how do you like working with Mulberry?

Nice work on the chair… I’m also curious how mulberry is to work with… Were the seat and back slats cut or sanded to shape or did you steam and bend them?

-- - No design is perfect - That's why pencils have erasers -

Nice rocker Duane, its good to see you back in the shop.

-- Dale West Central Pa. Do it all, before last call.

Nice! rocker. could you show a close pic. of the wood? thanks!

thanks for the nice comments everyone, Mulberry is a lot like sassafrass,just a little harder than poplar,sands easy and doesn’t burn to bad unless you really bear down on the sander.This wood had several defects since it was from the limbs and I used super glue to fill the cracks and voids but I wanted to leave the knots and cracks that weren’t to bad for character.I have a pattern for the seat slats and back slats and just cut them out,these are only porch rockers and I don’t put the same amount of time in them that you would a maloof style or other indoor rocker. Once you have made a couple of these and get all your patterns tweaked you can make one in a couple of days.Dale, good to hear from you ,yea my garden dried up so maybe you will see me on here some more,I am going to send you something so watch your mailbox.here are some pics up close of the mulberry

Very nice! I like! :)

Don’t reckon I have ever seen a rocker made from Mulberry. I used to eat the berries though. My wife would love this. When we first married she shared this ‘vision’ of hers where we were retired sitting in our rockers on the front porch. So every year for our anniversary I have a tradition of giving her a different miniature rocking chair. She thinks it ‘sweet’, but I really do it so I can keep count of how many years we’ve been married, in case she ‘tests’ me. Anyways… really nice rocker you’ve built!

-- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story)

The rocker has some very nice grain lines to it. Wonderful job

-- Norman