How to make a rocking chair with your own hands

The rocking chair in the house is a symbol of comfort. It's nice to relax and read a book. For the home or office there is a large selection of such seats: light and elegant from rattan, respectable wooden leather-covered. But it is appropriate only in the house, and in the garden there is a place for a homemade rocking chair. Make a rocking chair with your own hands - the task is not very difficult, but putting it in the shade under a tree, you can rest in it after summer work.

Material for rocking chair

Armchair-rocking chair for your hands for useoutside the house make:

• of wood;
• from plywood;The
• is made of metal and is covered with wood.

What not to do, is to cover such an armchair with a cloth, once in the rain, the finish will lose its appearance.

Consider the option of manufacturing a rocking chair from plywood.

We make a rocking chair from plywood

Rocking chair drawings, which you see, is made of plywood:

What does it take to make it?

Tool

To work in pleasure, stock up the tool in advance, namely:

• jigsaw;
• with a disk grinder;
• screwdriver;
• measuring tape;
• with wood drills;
• square with long measuring ruler;
• with a pencil;
• with brushes.

We purchase material

The best material is:

• larch;
• spruce or pine;
• oak.

But they are expensive, and the oak with larch is difficult to handle, so we will stop on the plywood, which, thanks to its plasticity, is handled easily and costs less. We buy:

• sheet plywood thickness of 30 mm. Suitable sheet size is 1.52x0.8 m;
• self-tapping screws and confirmations;
• joinery glue;
• bruski 5x2, 5 cm

From such materials we will produce a rocking chair, a photo of which is shown below.

Designing the

In order not to make a large stock of firewood for yourself at a high price, make a drawing and specify all the dimensions before cutting out the pieces for the rocking chair. You can also use the services of search engines on the Internet and download the finished, liked drawing. For self-drawing, use the following tips:

• requires millimeter paper to fit the assembly drawing and detailing in a 1: 1 scale;
• we transfer the drawings of parts to the plywood sheet, observing the accuracy. Cutting is done in such a way that the waste was as small as possible;
• cut out the details using an electric jig saw and a router. At the same time on the details we make holes for fasteners;
• with a grinding machine we clean the cutting places.

You can go in a different way:

• we take a tight cardboard;
• we draw a grid on it like the one on millimeter paper;
• we draw the necessary elements;
• cut out the drawn. We obtain patterns that we use to transfer the outlines of future products to plywood.

We produce the side parts

In the production of side parts, which resemble a boomerang, we perform the following:

• on a whole sheet of plywood, apply a pattern and draw a line around it;
• we take a jig saw and saw out the workpiece;
• we process the cutting lines by a grinder;
• in the same way act with the second sidewall.

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

Support bars

The bars are needed for fixing the backrest, therefore:

• marking for them on sidewalls must be carried out very accurately. Before they drill, we make precise measurements;
• we have holes in the center of the sides;
• for fixing we use joinery glue and confirmations.

Fasten the strips

Each bar will be fastened to a pair of bars:

• start with the upper bar and fix it with screws;
• we use the same scheme to mount the remaining parts. The frame is made. It remains only to treat the product with antiseptic, allow to dry, cover with stain and varnish or paint, and also disguise the hats of the confirmats with plugs matched to the color of the tree.

On this chair-rocker reviews from your relatives and guests will be the most enthusiastic.

Note: The for the rocking chair can be used to make a foam mattress and fit the structure with dermatome.

How to make a rocking chair made of wood

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

• when choosing a material, do not take boards on which knots are observed;
• is not suitable for wet wood.

Let's consider an example of manufacturing of a rocking chair from a tree of a simple design.

Material

For side structures it is necessary to stock up:

• with bars of rectangular section 3x3 or 3x6 cm;
• the side panels of the seat are L-shaped and require boards with a cross section of 2 x 9 cm in the amount of 4 pcs.

We perform

marking. If you have a radial-cutting machine, then on it you can very easily make a marking for connecting the rocking chair parts to the tongue:

• , first we cut out using the patterns, armrest, vertical racks, one slide;
• lay out the workpieces on a flat plane and outline the places where they will be interconnected;
• on the radial cut-off machine in these places we make cuts with a depth of 1/2 of the thickness of the bars;
• with the help of a bit, remove the excess.

Skids

The skid of a rocking chair made of wood is a skid. If they are not performed correctly, then you can tip over with your chair. Experts advise:

• curvature at the back is made a little noticeable. This increases stability;
• in front of the skids, its radius is larger and the front part itself is slightly shorter. All this is done with a band saw;
• because vertical supports are attached along the edges, a thickness is chosen so that strength is not violated at the connection point;
• curved surfaces are carefully ground;
• test is carried out by rocking the runners on a flat plane. If somewhere the rocking is not smooth - it's polished again.

Assembly of side structures

At this stage, we are ready for the details for assembling the side structures of the rocking chair:

• armrests;
• vertical racks;
• skids.

Therefore:

• glue them together;
• clamp the places where the adhesive was applied with clamps;
• is left until the glue dries;
• with a knife cut off the protruding and frozen glue;
• is sanded with sandpaper.

On what to sit

We place the boards on the seat at such an angle to ensure a comfortable stay in the chair. So:

• mark out the boards;
• saw at an angle of slightly more than 90 degrees;
• seat consists of 2 L-shaped frames of boards and tubes made of cardboard. Wherever the parts touch, we connect them overlapping;
• further it is necessary to fasten the tubes from the cardboard, and for this, holes in the L-shaped frames are needed. Planting the tubes should be quite dense, so the holes are the same diameter as the tube;
• in the finished holes fill the glue and the tubes are inserted. The entrance to the hole is 20 mm on each side. We drive the tubes first into one frame, and then to the other and tighten it all together.

Final assembly of

Now we come close to the most difficult and responsible stage - the assembly of the product. We execute it this way:

• temporarily we collect a rocking chair from a tree by means of clamps;
• mark the points where the A-shaped side frame is in contact with the seat;
• clamps remove and transfer these points to the second side structure;
• drill through these hole points through;
• to include nuts and washers, we make chamfers under them;
• again needs clamps to determine the line of contact of the seat with the side parts;
• drill holes through this line. In this case, the drill goes into the cardboard tubes;
• through the holes we insert into the tubes metal rods with threaded thread, they will strengthen the design. Preliminary, the hole in the frame and the passage in the tube is smeared with glue;
• if the rod protrudes, cut it flush with the frame;
• with washers, tighten the nuts with a key from both sides at the same time;
• side constructions are also tightened with metal rods, fixing them with lock nuts.

Design

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

• we take sandpaper and eliminate all irregularities;
• if there are cavities that are not eliminated by emery, then eliminate them by applying carpentry putty;
• putty will dry and again require sanding;
• we cover the chair with a primer, after drying, we grind and repeat the procedure again;
• apply the varnish in several layers.

All, the task is fulfilled: a rocking chair, the price of which is several times less than the purchase, is ready. They are no worse than this one, manufactured by professionals: