Making a Sam Maloof Rocking chair on the Shopbot CNC router...

10/7/2016

We recently purchased the dxf files for creating a Sam Maloof designed rocking chair. Two of our advanced students have taken the project on and we will do our best to document the project as it moves forward. One of the things we decided to do is to run all of the individual files on Pine instead of the traditional walnut so that we can work out any bugs and techniques.

4 Comments

John link

10/28/2016 05:16:09 pm

You guys are rocking it!

ric amo

8/15/2017 04:54:32 pm

Hi, may I know where you purchase the DXF files from ?

David Brannen link

8/16/2017 06:56:33 am

The person that sold us the plans is Russell Crawford. Email is below. The chair was s lot of fun but a lot of work for the kids to complete.

rscrawford@xplornet.ca

Sincerely,

David Brannen
Grants Pass High School

ric amo

8/29/2017 04:27:24 pm

Thanks David. How did you guys go with cutting of the rocking chair on the CNC? Do you have online posts of the process? :)

I would love to see how your finished chair looks like....
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