Hal Taylor Rocker Build

Beautiful job!

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Beautiful rocker !

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Just Beautiful and your first to boot… Well Done

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beautiful rocker. The cherry looks great. l like how you have arranged the grain pattern for the seat and the headreats and the back slats.

-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario

Nicely done! You did a great job for your first. I like the style of the chair.

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I marvel at the joinery in the maloof and taylor rockers. I swear im gonna make one of these some day. Your came out great, im dyin to see what your second time around will produce.

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Congratulations Richard, excellant job.

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

I can’t believe this is your first. It is perfect and the wood is beautiful. I am so envious of your skills. I have the wood but not the confidence to try this. You will have a hard time topping this one. If this doesn’t make Top3 , there is no justice! The laminated slats and rockers add a lot of class.

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very beautiful.. fine job.

Never seen one in cherry, very nice final product. you must have used a case of sandpaper. Care to share your finish.

-- DocK, WV

Thanks folks for the kind comments, to respond to a couple of questions:

gfadvm: watch Hal’s video start to finish and follow along in the book, with his guidance, i believe it can be done by anyone with average woodworking skills. I did that before I started and then re-watched the video section before a major step just before I performed it to avoid any confusion. I am happy to say no butchering of parts was done in the entire project.

DocK16: The secret to the look is not the finish, it is the surface prep, the finish is just natural colour Deft Danish Oil (4 coats), but the entire chair goes through 120,180, 220, 400 grit paper (using sander where possible) after shaping by rasps and sanding drum, after the grinding is done.

But the final step is using the 1000 grit Festool Platin disks (like Abralon) on the whole chair. Attached to the sander where possible and by hand elsewhere, this makes the rocker almost glow and has a sheen (not Charlie) that looks like it already has 1 or 2 coats of finish. This is the technique I use for prepping my guitars and makes it much easier to get the high sheen finish I am after.

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I need to get the book and video if I’m ever going to try to build one.

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

excellent work. very tight joints and great selection of wood.

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Richard this is just awesome. Great selection of wood, nice flowing shape, and very tight joints. Well done!

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You’ve done a fabulous job on this. I was fortunate enough to meet his daughter a few weeks ago. They seem like good folk. If I ever build a rocker, it will be from Hal’s plans. His place is about 20min from me. I want to visit sometime.

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