Anna Rocker Build Continued

Today I continued with the final smoothing and shaping of parts for the chair. This work is done with a small arsenal of tools, from planes, spoke shaves, scrapers, and the good old edge sander. Here's one of the back legs getting refined.

Next I continued on with the joinery. All of the mortise and tenon work is done now with the exception of the two back rails. All of these joints were cut on the Multi Router. For those of you who do not know what that is, have a look here http://jdstools.com/multi-router.aspx. It is essentially a 3 axis milling machine, manually controlled rather than CNC. It is the fastest, most accurate way to do a great many operations on the shop, joinery and otherwise. Here's a mortise being cut in the front leg.

The side rails have a pretty sever miter on the back end. Because of this angle, it will make clamping that joint difficult. The rail will also have a curve at the intersection to make it flow together with the leg. I opted to leave an extra chunk of wood there, with the right angle to aid in clamping. This piece will get cut and shaped to create that curve after glue up. Here's that rail getting mortised.

Tomorrow I will be fitting tenons, mortising the back rails, and starting the arms. I will also start building the fixture to hold the assembled sides while I cut the spline slots in all the miter joints.