Popular Post shaneymack Posted December 2, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Finally time to start another project! Im hoping to complete this a little quicker than the chest of drawers. Our youngest child is 7 months old now so life has normalized a little. Ive been itching to build the maloof rocker for awhile now. I am building it out of honduran mahogany. I returned the first batch of boards and bought two more boards today. Check out these beasts; Both are ten feet long. 65 bd ft in those two boards! I am certain it is genuine mahogany. How am i certain you ask. He told me so; Who needs a wood identification book...I got started with the templates. Glued them all down to the plywood and used the jig saw to rough cut them. Cut the finished shapes on the bandsaw. That produced a big pile o scrap; And a big pile o templates; I refined them all on the spindle/belt sander which was quick and did a great job. When i brought the sticks home this afternoon i gave them a quick sanding with my random orbit sander and started mapping out my pieces. I can get every piece out of the one 19" board except for the rockers. . Im going to give the boards a couple days before i get started on the seat. Stay tuned!!Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewyo Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 This is going to be great! Thanks for journaling! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Stay tuned I will! I love this chair. Just don't have the experience or nads to try and pull it off. Good luck dude! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgreenb Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Very excited for this journal. Looks like you jumped in with two feet and made good progress already. And you better lock your shop at night. I might sneak in there and take that other board. Oh and cute kid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N00b-in-training Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Jealous! Best of luck! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chet Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Looking forward to watching the build Shane. I hope you are paying the apprentice a living wage, other wise he is going to have to live with his parents. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Nice!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janello Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 *grabs some popcorn* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroDave Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Fantastic...Looking forward to watching this especially after watching several of Sam Maloof videos... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric. Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Awesome Shane. I'm glad you got your mahogany issued resolved. I know you were sweating that. And when a Canutian sweats, you know he's worried legit.Just the layout of the parts on that board is cool. Gonna be a killer build! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodenskye Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Shane, looking forward to following along. Boards purchased, templates made and layout in one day, at this pace your gonna put kev's record to shame! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cancelleri Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Excellent! Did you get your tenon cutter yet? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Hell yeah. Soo in for this one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted December 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Awesome Shane. I'm glad you got your mahogany issued resolved. I know you were sweating that. And when a Canutian sweats, you know he's worried legit.Just the layout of the parts on that board is cool. Gonna be a killer build!Ya man the layout was a lot of fun. A little strategic as I had to be careful for the grain run out at certain parts. Really took my time and my wife want to be sure that i tell you guys that she helped Excellent! Did you get your tenon cutter yet?I gotta wait for the Lee Valley gift card to come in. Once thats here, i got a grand of chair building awesomeness coming my way Shane, looking forward to following along. Boards purchased, templates made and layout in one day, at this pace your gonna put kev's record to shame!LOL Bryan. I made the templates on Saturday. Putting Kevs record to shame will never happen, he is a freaking machine. I hope to get it done in 4 months. Maybe less, i hear its a lot of work!! *grabs some popcorn*It better be a big ass box my friend, its gonna take a while! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Looking forward to it Shane.. May you have as much success as I did! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon_t Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 I'm curious why your slip matching the seat when you have a 19" wide board. Couldn't you get most of the seat out of that? Maybe one non sequential on each side to preserve the sweet grain sweep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted December 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 I'm curious why your slip matching the seat when you have a 19" wide board. Couldn't you get most of the seat out of that? Maybe one non sequential on each side to preserve the sweet grain sweep. Well its technically not slip matching. Im not resawing it. The seat needs to be 20" wide. Also the seat is coopered so it needs to be in five pieces to achieve the curve. So even if the board were 22" wide i would not have chosen to use it along the enitre width. Id be worried that when i glued it back together the cathedrals would not line up because of the kerfs taken out. With all the straight grain on the edge of the board I think it will glue together seamlessly and there is kind of a two tone thing going on there that i was to showcase in the seat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted December 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Looking forward to it Shane.. May you have as much success as I did! The success, im hopeful. The speed, never! Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..Kev Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 The success, im hopeful. The speed, never! Sent from my SGH-I337M using TapatalkOnce you get going, you'll find it goes a bit quicker than you expect. Also, I had a lot of time in the shop which was a huge help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnaziri Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 I am so glad you your sharing your experience. I started the Maloof chair but realized quickly that I needed a proper workshop and some additional tools. So, I have just a few components done but the build is on hold. I will be paying very close attention to your build. Thanks for the journal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strasberry Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Watching with interest! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 daaaaaaaamn thats some wide mahogany! the widest stuff I can normally get at my place is 6-7" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjk Posted December 2, 2015 Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Which part are you going to paint FesGreen?Looking forward to your build 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted December 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 Which part are you going to paint FesGreen?Looking forward to your build Im going to paint the spindles green and carve "Festool" into the headrest. Gonna make Sam proud! Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaneymack Posted December 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2015 daaaaaaaamn thats some wide mahogany! the widest stuff I can normally get at my place is 6-7" Ya i was blown away at the big boards they had. I was going to buy a third board but that brought the total to 93 board feet. I want to be able to eat this month so I put the third board back. ☺ Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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