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Here's a 3/4 rocker for our daughter. Walnut with Ebony accents. She loves it, its amazing how much kids like things their size, I brought it in a couple times while I was working on it and she immediately ran over and tried to climb up into it. It's pretty awesome when someone goes crazy over something you have built. Let me know if you have any questions or need any tips. This one's for sale (actually would be one just like it). If you're interested let me know.

take care

Dayton
www.daytonwooddesign.com

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· In Loving Memory
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Very cool chair. I want to build one of those one of these days.
 

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Wow! It was kind of funny looking through your pictures - when looking at the first two pics I wasn't thinking about the scale of the chair. Then when the third pic pops up it's a bit of a shock seeing it in size relation to your lovely daughter.

Great job, it's a beautiful chair,
Kerry
 

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Yes that is a Maloof chair, you did a fine reproduction. mike
 

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Dayton,

You built a beautiful rocker. And it looks like you have a satisfied client already.

This is a really nice post.
 

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fantastic looking chair, makes me wish I had either money or skill!
as much as your daughter loves the chair now, I bet she'll love it even more when her son/daughter gets to use it!
amazing work.
 

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Great job! I love this style/joinery. Thanks for posting it.
 

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Did you make your own plans? If not can you tell where you got them. Beautiful chair and grandchild.
 

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Another excellent rocker Dayton! Looks like your grand daughter thinks so to.
 

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Thanks guys, AL the plans/templates are mine, I got the basic dimensions from several different Maloof books as-well-as his video. I then attempted to shrink them all by .75 but I don't think I got the proportions quite right, it's trickier than I thought. Anyway if you would like I can send you my basic measurements, but about 80% of it comes down to eye. I usually make all the legs and arms big so I have lots of room to whittle away areas that don't look right.

Oh yeah, she's not my Granddaughter, she's our first Child, I'm 31, not quite ready for Grandkids yet : )
 

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I love these types of chairs!! Did you have to buy the plans or did you just learn from trial and error? You should pst a blog and show everyone how you do it :).. Great work!!!

Mike
 

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thanks mike
The only plans that I know of are Hale Taylor's and Mark Adams' but I don't like either very much. I worked out the templates on my own with some basic measurements from Sam's video and magazine articles. I will try to photo document my progress next time so I can post a blog.

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Thats cool, i'll have to check and see if i can find Sams video and books.. I thought about buying Hals plans at one time, but… :)
Good work though, all your chairs are amazing!!
 

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You did a beauty job on this chair!
 
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