How to make a rocking chair?

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How to make a rocking chair?

Comfortable, exclusive furniture made byhands, will always be a wonderful decoration of your house or villa. For example, you can make a beautiful rocking chair. And how nice it will be to spend cold winter evenings in the arms of your second half sitting on this chair.

Possible materials for a rocking chair

A rocking chair can be made from a wide variety of materials, for example:

• Completely of wood;
• The seat is made of wood, and the frame is made of metal;
• Whole of metal with forged elements;
• From plastic with the use of metal inserts, etc.

But in order to make a rocking chairwith their own hands, it is worth choosing the material with which it is easiest to work at home. In this article we will present the blueprints and the plan of work on the rocking chair from wooden bars and plywood.

Work on the rocking chair

You will need the following tools

• Electric jigsaw with saws for wood;
• Grinding machine with discs of different grain sizes;
• Shurupovort and a set of bits to it;
• Drilled on wood;
• Brushes;
• Roulette;
• Straight angle with a long measuring ruler;
• Pencil.

From the materials you need

• Eurofaner 30 mm thick;
• Wooden bars 50x25 mm - the length can be different, depending on the desired width of the chair;
• Confirmaty 5x120 mm, 12 pcs .;
• Self-tapping screws for wood 4x45, 140 pcs.

Stages of work

1. At the first stage of the work, allmaterials. From the plywood, we cut out the sides and three dimensions of 800x120 mm. For convenience, the layout has markup. The size of one grid cell is 100 mm. Do not get upset if the shape of the sidewalls is slightly different from the drawing (but only slightly). The most important thing is that the side walls coincide.
2. Also, you should immediately prepare the bars. In all there will be 35 pieces. If the standard length of the bar is 2.4 meters, it is advisable to make the width of the chair in half the original bar.
3. The next stage is preparing the details of the chair for assembly. All Surface must be sanded. If you assume that the chair will be located in the country house on the street, then you should treat the tree with particular scrupulousness.
4. Assembly begins with sawing holes in thethe side walls under the kings. The location for the holes is chosen almost arbitrarily. The main thing is that they should be located in the legs, at the head and in the middle part. The kings are attracted to the sidewalls with the help of confirmats, the plywood is drilled through and through.
5. Now your task is to drill the bars from each side with two screws at equal distance from each other. Morally prepare for the fact that you will have to accurately drill about 140 holes.
6. At the finish line, you must zashpatlevat each samorez, then cover the surface of the chair with antiseptic and three times waterproof varnish.

The chair need not necessarily have rigid shapes. You can easily make a chair with your own hands made of soft materials. More details about this you can read in our article: How to sew an armchair.