Rocking chair with own hands: how to make of plywood, wood and metal

Made by hands the rocking chair - pride for the man, after all he made it himself. Rest on such original furniture is a pleasure, but it needs to be mounted so that it swayed, but it did not overturn. Materials for the chair can be used any - everything that is at home or in the country: wood, plywood, pipes.

From what it is better to make a chair with their own hands

A rocking chair with its own hands is made of:

• Plywood. The rocking chair from plywood has a simple appearance, but the quality is excellent - the furniture is comfortable and sturdy.
• Tree. To create high-quality furniture, use wood of good varieties - oak, larch, conifers.
• Profile pipes. Summer chairs-rocking chairs are made by welding the sheets to properly bent proftrubam, or by welding the main frame from them.
• Vines. Wicker rocking chairs look chic and serve for a long time. If you do not know how to weave, you can buy an armchair in a store or you can try to do it - it's up to you.

How to make a rocking chair with your own hands

It's easy to make a rocking chair yourself, doing everything step by step:

1. Prepare the necessary tools:
   • jigsaw;
   • grinding machine;
   • a set of different-sized baits;
   • router( to handle the edges);
   • wood drills;
   • screwdriver;
   • cant;
   • plywood;
   • measuring tape;
   • paint brushes;
   • roller;
   • elbow;
   • self-tapping screws;
   • pencil;
   • hammer.
2. Draw the drawing. Each project begins with planning. A detailed drawing is needed to calculate the amount of building materials. Calculations made on a metric grid, it is better to transfer to paper and carefully cut out the templates, with which the contour of the future rocking chair is easy to apply to the work surface. Inaccuracies are permissible, you can not make mistakes when leveling the sides: the skating and lower sides must be absolutely identical.
3. Cut out the billets and plywood. To prepare couplers-kremgi and sidewall for a rocking chair with your own hands, it is better to use a eurofaner with a thickness of 30 mm. Saw the saws with a saw. Next, cut the bars of the bars, which will serve as a seat and a rocking chair back. Cutting out the details, observe the multiplicity, in this case there will be very few leftovers.
4. Process the parts. Remove chamfers, sand all the parts of the future product with a grinder. If the rocking chair is on the street, pay special attention to the ends. This will prevent the ingress of damp, to which they will be exposed in the country. Saturate the ends with hot linseed oil, and flatten the wood fibers with a hammer. Due to this, moisture is practically not absorbed. The end elements must be treated twice before assembly.
5. Assemble the structure. A rocking chair by one's own hands does not require the observance of special standards in the manufacture. The holes required for the czars are marked: they are attracted to the sidewalls by confirmations. To combine the two sidewalls, drill through them through holes with a drill 8 mm. For the end face, take the rope 5 mm. In each bar, drill 4 holes.
6. Process the finished product. Spread the holes formed. Shave the rocking chair with antiseptic, cover it with waterproof varnish three times. Remember how much effort you had to make a rocking chair with your own hands, so it's best to carefully coat the structure with a finish coat. Then the chair will serve for years to the joy of the whole family.

Rocking chair from plywood

Beautiful and practical rocking chair for cottages is done with:

• plywood( dimensions: 1520x800 mm, thickness 4 mm, sheets at 10 and 15 mm);
• glue;
• milling machine;
• set of screws.

We make an armchair with our own hands:

1. We make the parts templates for the rocking chair. We draw a grid with smooth cells and transfer the drawings of elements on it, along which the patterns will be cut out later.
2. For patterns on plywood, we cut out a 10 mm cutter with a milling cutter: 18 × 54 × 3 cm backing strips, 16 sitting strips( 50 × 3).From 4 mm sheet: one main part for the backrest and seat.
3. We mark places where fastenings will be made, we drill holes in them.
4. We make the step-rocking chair for the chair, in the form of a ski-like, 53 cm long.
5. Grind all the elements with a sandpaper.
6. Try to assemble the structure.
7. Collect the backrest and seat, glue them to the base( thin sheets), forming a curved shape.
8. After the paint has completely dried, we ground the structure.
9. Finally fix the details of the rocking chair.

Wooden chair

To construct a wooden rocking chair with your own hands, which will become a favorite place for the baby, you need:

• wooden pallets;
• beams( 50x100 mm);
• self-tapping screws - 4 pcs.;
• M10 bolts 50 mm with nuts and washers - 6 pcs.;
• bolts with a diameter of 12 mm( with stoppers);
• tubes made of cardboard( 5 mm thick);
• electric fret saw;
• sandpaper( 100x200);
• drill.

The chair is made in stages:

1. Preparing the pallet: remove all nails from it, saw off the unsuitable edges and corners.
2. Of six bars we make two side frames in the form of trapezoids.
3. Of the four bars, we form the sides of the L-shaped seat.
4. The future runners are rounded off with a saw, we clear out all irregularities.
5. We cut the upper part of the runners and insert there the greased sidewall posts. Fix and leave to dry.
6. On the armrests, drill holes( at a distance of 5 mm from each other) for the tubes of cardboard - they will serve as a seat and back. Lubricate them with glue and paste.
7. We are assembling a ready rocking chair.
8. To make the structure look neat, sand it, remove the glue residues and open with varnish.

From profile pipe

The rocking chair from a profile pipe with own hands becomes an excellent "garden" variant - the object turns out very durable and durable. For such furniture you need:

• steel bars( with cuts of 20x20 mm);
• steel sheet - 2 mm;
• corners - 40х40х3 mm;
• welding machine;
• Bulgarian;
• drill;
• self-tapping screws for metal.

We do a rocking chair:

1. We make out the drawing. It looks like a normal chair, the lower parts of which stand on a wide arc.
2. We cut the bars. Their length should be 1 m. We weld to the frame at a distance of 5-6 mm from each other. We bend the steel along the oval and weld it to the base.
3. We make the seat. To the part where it will be, we fasten the sheet.
4. We clean the welded seams, we process the finished rocking chair with a tool against corrosion.
5. Similar furniture is not too soft, but you can put a pillow on it - then the sitting person will not experience discomfort.

Rocking chair

A baby rocking chair is made by every daddy who worries about the comfort of his baby. Mount the new entertainment and a place to relax in accordance with the above instructions. The second option is to attach a base to the legs of the last highchair of the child, on which it will gently sway. The main thing is to add functionality so that the object does not overturn.

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