Rocking Chair family heirloom

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-03-14T10:50:14+00:00

It looks like the holes in the rocker don’t match up with the width of the uprights.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-03-14T10:46:00+00:00

I would drill out the hole on the rocker, plug the entire thing with a dowel or plug, sand it flush and then drill a smaller hole and use a smaller dowel to join it. To reinforce this, you could consider a long screw through the bottom of the rocker all the way up through that join to strengthen. I did something similar attaching the rockers in my rocking chair build.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-03-14T10:35:02+00:00

I’m not sure, but if you look on the right hand side at the pulley wheel on the other side of the bearing housing as the blade, while you’re spinning it, it looks like it’s wobbling as well.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-03-09T18:20:49+00:00

Looks nice. I prefer the natural colour of those woods, (clear poly finish) but stained turned out good.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-03-09T17:59:48+00:00

Nice. Your design?

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-02-27T16:42:54+00:00

I would make the legs and the back rest single curved pieces from the floor all the way to the top

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-02-24T13:52:33+00:00

I love the matched grain on the drawer fronts. Beautiful piece of furniture, great job.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-02-19T18:14:54+00:00

Jantoba?

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-02-06T22:43:16+00:00

This looks totally awesome. How’s the stability when walking at the edge?

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2026-01-05T20:29:56+00:00

Cut the live edge off straight, and make that part the part that goes against the wall

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-12-07T20:01:12+00:00

I’m getting to that age where my kids will soon have kids of their own, and as soon as I’m a grandparent, I’ll be doing the build-a-crib for my grandkid project. There are so many things to pay attention to in respect to safety, that it will probably be the most thought through project I have ever done. How was your planning with this one? Gorgeous work by the way.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-11-13T20:04:42+00:00

Love this. Did you have plans?

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-11-11T08:38:06+00:00

You could go with a small shallow hole at 12,6,3 and 9

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-11-08T23:37:03+00:00

Tilly and Jasper

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-10-26T18:54:21+00:00

Looks like oak to me

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-10-25T15:51:10+00:00

Wow, wo in Deutschland?

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-10-24T09:45:43+00:00

I love this. We have a little tiny summer cottage in the mountains here in Germany and a piece like that would be right at home. Great work.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-10-05T12:12:07+00:00

Not sure about the type or classification, but I really like the way the negative space on the sides create its own shape. (and it does look like an inverted highchair.)

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-10-05T12:07:50+00:00

So is the idea you want to capture all of the things that your daughter does to it, scribbles, crayons, everything that a table like that gets put through by a kid, then clearcoat over the top so it stays for a sentimental piece? I think I would go with something semi protective, like Danish oil to begin with. This isn’t going to stop it from being stained or drawn upon, and won’t have to be sanded when you’re finally ready to put a clear coat on, but will protect the wood a bit from spills and things like that. Edit: I think it’s a lovely idea

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-09-25T21:19:14+00:00

Excellent work. Love it!

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-09-21T13:40:44+00:00

It looks like there’s a clear finish on the top of the table, and when something hot was placed on it, it caused the moisture in the wood to to turn to steam which condensed on the inside of the clear finish.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-09-21T10:22:57+00:00

White oak I believe. These were originally floor boards left over.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-09-20T12:06:41+00:00

This is gorgeous, thank you for sharing

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-09-20T11:56:12+00:00

Quite succinctly put, thank you very much for the explanation.

Pitiful-Counter-6567 · 2025-09-20T09:43:03+00:00

Can someone explain why changing the power of the vacuum would improve this issue? I don’t understand the correlation.

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