Hello - I have a rocking chair version of Greene and Greene's Blacker
House armchair in progress. It's proven to be an interesting project! I
have posted images of my progress on my website at:
http://furnituremaker.com/Rocking_Chair.htm

Darrell Peart

Very Nice! I love projects like this that make you think a little. I
ussually have as much fun dreaming up and making the jigs as building the
real project.
How do you attach the legs to the rockers? Screw through the bottom? or do
you have some sort of pracket or inset that will do it?

Nice Work,
Joe in Denver
My Woodworking Website:
www.the-wildings.com/shop/


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Hello - I have a rocking chair version of Greene and Greene's Blacker
House armchair in progress. It's proven to be an interesting project! I
have posted images of my progress on my website at:
http://furnituremaker.com/Rocking_Chair.htm

Darrell Peart

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Hello - I have a rocking chair version of Greene and Greene's Blacker
House armchair in progress. It's proven to be an interesting project! I
have posted images of my progress on my website at:
http://furnituremaker.com/Rocking_Chair.htm

Darrell Peart


Were you able to pull dimensions from their chairs?
Are the chairs in a museum where they can be viewed by the public?

I've had an interest in making one of the bedroom rocking chairs from the
Blacker house, but the only thing I've found about them is the one photo in
a publication I have in my library. A Google will reveal much about the
Blacker house, but not so much about the furniture.
I've never gotten around to it, but probably will at least come up with
plans. I know the dimensions of other rocking chairs and have a design that
is comfortable to use. I suppose I will start with the proportions of the
design that I have and modify it to look like the bedroom rockers. I think
cherry will be my choice of wood.

Wow.......you are the man!!!! looking good.....you are awesome, kind
of puts the rest of us to shame. I really enjoy your work!
Mike from American Sycamore

Very handsome Darrell.


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Hello - I have a rocking chair version of Greene and Greene's Blacker
House armchair in progress. It's proven to be an interesting project! I
have posted images of my progress on my website at:
http://furnituremaker.com/Rocking_Chair.htm

Darrell Peart

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"Darrell" wrote in message
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Hello - I have a rocking chair version of Greene and Greene's Blacker
House armchair in progress. It's proven to be an interesting project! I
have posted images of my progress on my website at:
http://furnituremaker.com/Rocking_Chair.htm

Darrell Peart


Were you able to pull dimensions from their chairs?
Are the chairs in a museum where they can be viewed by the public?

I've had an interest in making one of the bedroom rocking chairs from the
Blacker house, but the only thing I've found about them is the one photo
in a publication I have in my library. A Google will reveal much about the
Blacker house, but not so much about the furniture.
I've never gotten around to it, but probably will at least come up with
plans. I know the dimensions of other rocking chairs and have a design
that is comfortable to use. I suppose I will start with the proportions of
the design that I have and modify it to look like the bedroom rockers. I
think cherry will be my choice of wood.

I was so excited finding some one doing Greene and Greene style, I forgot to
mention your work is exceptional and exciting. Please keep us posted.

Like others here, I am quite intrigued with your Green & Green work.
The chair is beautiful, but like some things I have done in the past, I
wonder if you can find many people that are willing to pay what such
meticulous work must must require in hours expended. How much of your
time are you putting to a labor of love and for how much of it do you
expect to be compensated?

Joe - I will dowel the rockers to the legs - two 5/16" dowels per
joint - drilled from the bottom of the rocker. The dowels will be
opposed (going in slightly different directions) .

Darrell

I wasn't concerned with anexact reproduction - I was more intersted in
capturing the feel of the design. There is one original Greene and
Greene Blacker House rocker in the LA County Musuem and one in the
Huntington in Pasadena. There is nothing like seeing the real thing -
pictures just can't capture all that is going on with the Greene's
original chair.
For any of you interested you can see a lot of good images of G&G
furniture and houses at the virutal archives:
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/architectur...archbasic.html

Also we have a very active G&G yahoo group going
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Greene-style-furniture/


Darrell

I certainly didn't make high wages the first time around on this
project. I fully expect to get a fair price for subsequent orders of
this piece though. Even with all the jigs and templates made - this
piece is still quite labor intensive and will not be inexpensive. If
the design is something I am really excited about (as I was this one) I
view it as an investment. It's very difficult to break into the
high-end market, but there are clients out there who are willing to pay
a fair price for high quality work. If you have no examples of high-end
work in you portfolio - you are unlikely to attract high-end
projects. It took me many years of lower paying projects before I was
able to get fair wages for my efforts. This really is a profession that
has to be a labor of love - certainly not part of a get rich quick
scheme.

Darrell

Really nice work. You have surely set a standard to aspire too. Thank
you for sharing.

How are you doing the M&T work. I noticed a rounded tenon. Leigh FM&T,
Multi router...? I've found mortising for chairs to be near the height
of woodworking challenges and this piece seems to take that challenge
even higher.

BW

I just got a new multirouter not long ago. This is the first project I
have used it on. I am very impressed with it's accuracy. It made the
compound angles much easier.


Darrell

It was somewhere outside Barstow when "SonomaProducts.com"
wrote:

I've found mortising for chairs to be near the height
of woodworking challenges

I certainly don't like rounded-end tenons on chairframes. They're
plenty strong when glued, but they lose rigidity (and also strength, I
suspect) when the glue inevitably fails with age. Quality furniture
has a long tradition of outlasting its glued joints, with the aid of
appropriate joinery.

I disagree. It doesn't make sense that rounded-end tenons would loose
rigidity more so than squared tenons, when, at some point in the very
distant future, the glue finally fails.
I have no experience with other rounded tennon/mortise systems and
cannot comment on them, but the multi-router (as was mentioned here)
works within incredibly tight tolerances. The resulting joints are
sized within a few thousands of an optimal fit - and consistently so!
A proper fit, is in my opinion more critical to the longevity of the
(mortise/tennon) joint than is its shape.

Darrel - The Greene and Greene rocker is looking very nice!