How to make a chair rocker with your own hands

Rocking chair in the house - the symbol of comfort. It is pleasant to relax, read the book. For home or for office, there is a large selection of such seats: lungs and elegant rattan, respectable wooden covered skin. But it is appropriate only in the house, and in the garden there will be a place for the homemade rocking chair. Make a rocking chair with their own hands - the task is not very difficult, but putting it in the shade under the tree, you can relax in it after the country's work.

Material for rocking chair

Rocking chair with their hands for use outside the house do:

• from wood;
• from plywood;
• metal frame and trimmed with wood.

What should not be done, so it is to wash such a chair with a cloth, hitting once under the rain, the finish will lose its appearance.

Consider the option of making chairs rocking from plywood.

We make a rocking chair from plywood

Rocking chair Drawings that you see is made of plywood:

What is needed for its manufacture?

Tool

To work in pleasure, go to the instrument in advance, namely:

• electrolovik;
• disk grinding machine;
• screwdriver;
• roulette;
• drills for wood;
• a carbon with a long dimensional ruler;
• pencil;
• brushes.

Acquire material

The best material is:

• larch;
• spruce or pine;
• oak.

But they cost expensive, and the oak with larch to process hard, so we will stop on the plywood, which, thanks to its plasticity, is processed easily and costs less. We buy:

• leaf Phaneur with a thickness of 30 mm. Suitable sheet size 1.52x0.8 m;
• self-tapping screws and confirmates;
• glue joiner;
• bar 5x2.5 cm.

From such materials we will produce a rocking chair, which is demonstrated below.

Design

In order not to make a large stock of firewood at a high price, before cutting the blanks for the chair -pad, make the drawing and specify all sizes. You can also use the services of search engines on the Internet and download ready-made drawing. For independent drawing, use the following tips:

• it will take millimeter paper to fit assembly drawing and detail on 1: 1 scale;
• we carry the drawings of parts on a plywood sheet, observing accuracy. Cutting in such a way that the waste is as small as possible;
• cut the details using the electric jigsaw and the mill. At the same time, we make holes for fasteners;
• grinding machine we clean the slice location.

You can go on another way:

• take a dense cardboard;
• we draw on it the grid like the one that is on millimeter paper;
• i expect the necessary elements;
• cut the drawn. It will be done, which we use to transfer the outlines of future products to Phaneur.

We make side parts

In the manufacture of lateral parts that the form resemble the boomerang, we carry out the following:

• on a whole sheet of plywood we impose a template and supply its contour;
• we take a jigsaw and drink a blank;
• grinding machine process the cut line;
• in the same way, we act with the second sidewall.

Note: If you plan to make a rocking chair in the form of a sofa, so that 2 people fit on it, then we will have to prepare 3 sidewalls: one will be located in the center and 2 on the sides.

Bruks supporting

Bars are needed for fastening the back, so:

• marking for them on the sidewalls should be performed very accurately. Before drilling them, we make accurate measurements;
• we have holes in the center of the sidewall;
• for fastening, we use glue joiner and confirmates.

Fix the planks

Each bar will be attached to a couple of bars:

• we start with the top plank and fix it with self-draws;
• by the same scheme, we mount the remaining parts. The frame is made. It remains only to handle the product with an antiseptic, give to dry, cover with a mourn and varnish or paint, as well as disguise the caps of the confirmates with plugs selected by the color of the tree.

About such a rocking chair reviews from your relatives and guests will be the most enthusiastic.

On a note: For a rocking chair, you can make a foam mattress and hammer the desonation.

How to make a rocking chair from a tree

If you prefer solidity in everything, then for the manufacture of a rocking chair furniture, use a tree both in pure form and in combination with metal. The technology of making a wooden rocking chair is the same as in the manufacture of it from plywood, but there are also its own features:

• when choosing a material, do not take the boards on which the knots are observed;
• no wet wood fit.

Consider an example of making a rocking chairs from a tree of a simple design.

Material

For lateral structures need to be stock:

• brucks of rectangular cross section 3x3 or 3x6 cm;
• the sidewalls of the seats have a L-shaped form and for them will be required to the cross section of 2x9 cm in the amount of 4 pcs.

Perform markup

If you have a radial cutting machine, then on it you can be very easy to make a markup for connecting the parts of the rocking chair in the spool:

• first drink, using patterns, armrest, vertical racks, one poloz;
• lay out the workpiece on a flat plane and plan to be the places where they will be connected with each other;
• on the radial-cutting machine in these places, we make the cutting depth 1/2 thickness of bars;
• using bit, we delete too much.

Polozia

Responsible part of the rocking chairs from the tree are the polls. If they are incorrectly accomplished, then you can tip along with your chair. Experts advise:

• the curvature at the rear is made a little noticeable. This increases stability;
• ahead on the clamns, the radius is larger and the front part itself is a little shorter. It is done all this with a ribbon saw;
• since the vertical racks are attached along the edges, then such a thickness is selected so that the connection is not disturbed at the scene;
• the surface curves are diligently polished;
• a test is carried out by swinging the poloz on a flat plane. If there is deflective swaying somewhere - it is spoiled again.

Assembling side structures

At this stage, we are ready for the assembly of the lateral designs of the rocking chair:

• armrests;
• vertical racks;
• poloz.

That's why:

• glue them between themselves;
• clear the place where the glue clamps was applied;
• we leave to dry the glue;
• i cut off the knife and frozen glue;
• spit emery paper.

On what to sit

Seat boards We place under the angle to ensure a comfortable stay in the chair. So:

• place the boards;
• drove at an angle slightly more than 90 degrees;
• the seat consists of 2 L-shaped frames from boards and cardboard tubes. Where parts come into contact, we connect their flashes;
• next, it is necessary to mount cardboard tubes, and for this you need holes in L-shaped frames. Landing the tubes must be rather dense, so the holes perform the same diameter as the tube;
• in the finished holes, pour glue and tubes insert. The occasion of them into the hole is 20 mm on each side. We pound the tubes first in one frame, and then to another and tighten all this together.

Final assembly

Now we come close to the most difficult and responsible phase - the assembly of the product. We perform it like this:

• temporarily assemble the rocking chair from the tree with the help of clamps;
• place the points where the A-shaped side frame comes into contact with the seat;
• clamps remove and carry these points to the second side design;
• drills at these points holes through;
• to make nuts and washers, perform the chamfer under them;
• again we need clamps to determine the contact line of seating with side parts;
• on this line drill holes. At the same time, the drill comes into cardboard tubes;
• through the holes insert metal rods with chopped threads in the tube, they will strengthen the design. Pre-hole in the frame and the passage in the tube is lubricated with glue;
• if the rod protrudes, cut it with a flush with the frame;
• own washers, tighten the nuts with the key on both sides at the same time;
• side structures also tighten with metal rods, fixing their locking nuts.

Registration

Rocking chair is ready, it remains only to give him a beautiful view. For this:

• we take emotional paper and remove all irregularities;
• if there are depressions that are not eliminated by emery, we eliminate them by applying a carpentry putty;
• putty dry and again it takes a slicer;
• covered by a primer chair, after drying, we grind and repeat the procedure again;
• we put the varnish in several layers.

Everything, the task was completed: a rocking chair, the price of which is several times less than the purchase, ready. They are not worse than this, manufactured by professionals: