Building a Sculpted Rocking Moose
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- čas přidán 14. 10. 2024
- Building a Maloof inspired sculpted rocking moose out of walnut, maple, and wenge.
This video is a bit on the long side, here's a guide if you'd like to skip to a certain step:
Measuring/Milling/Cutting Stock - 0:13
Bandsawing Body Parts - 2:20
Body Glueup - 2:57
Bent Lamination - 3:31
Antler Cutout/Turning/Sculpting - 4:56
Body Sculpting - 6:26
Marking/Fitting Rockers - 9:07
Sculpting and Attaching the Rockers - 11:04
Attaching the Antlers - 13:35
Applying Finish - 14:28
Finished/Glamour Shots - 16:37
The rockers are bent laminated using ~ 1/8" strips of walnut, each including a strip of maple and wenge (as sort of a nod to Mark from The Wood Whisperer who did the same on his sculpted rocker). There were definitely a lot of firsts in this project which made it drag on for a while. Though, from designing and building templates to building the lamination form to sculpting everything I'm very pleased with the outcome. It pretty much came out exactly as pictured in my head which is always a great feeling :)
Thanks for watching, let me know what you think!
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Great build. Much better then the normal type rocking horse. thks
I love how you have turned a child’s toy into a delightful piece of art! The beautiful simplicity of what you made belies its complexity as well as the skill it required to design and create this piece. Hence, my questions:
- What, if anything, might you do differently from a design or construction standpoint?
- What are the rough dimensions of of moose template?
- What are the raw dimensions of the rocker strips as they are being bent? Are they 1/8” finished thickness?
- What are the antler dimensions? To what diameter are the antler handles turned?
- Where did you source the pattern for the bent lamination curve? Do you know if its based on a 42 1/4” circle? How long is your bent lamination jig?
- Did you cut the legs to fit the moose body on the bandsaw at 13.1 degrees, or some other measurement?
- Any recommendation on the best rasp brands and models?
- What was your method of locating the exact position of the moose on the rockers? I am assuming that position provides maximum and safe rocking forwards and backwards.
Simplesmente fantástico! PARABÉNS!😉🎉🥂🌟🤗
Wow that is a beautiful piece! The walnut grains looks so much like hair on the moose. Great job!
Thanks a lot, Andy! Someone else also mentioned it looks like hair, which was just a happy accident 🙂 I oriented the grain that way for strength. Thank you for the kind words
Hi Mike, Thank you for posting this project. Does the hot glue hold well?
What a fabulous build. Any plans available yet?
really nice pice of art, great choice of timber, and a really nice form.
Thank you, Hypnoray. This accidentally turned out exactly how I’d envisioned it :) so it made me happy.
Mike, may I email you for the templates? I really love this and would like to make one for my daughter! Thank you!
absolutely amazing, my little sister is going to have her first kid and I've been throwing around ideas for a gift. definitely going to give this a try. you wouldn't happen to have a copy of the templates you used?
Thanks Brandon! I don’t have the templates scanned but I’ve been meaning to do that. Let me see what I can figure out in the next week and I’d be happy to share them with you. It’d be awesome to see you build it too!
@@mikeboehmer324 I know it's been awhile but I just wanted to see if you had a chance to digitize the templates you used. Still by far the best woodworking project I seen in a long time probably watched this video 100 times lol
Sorry Brandon I replied to this but I think my cell Service was sketchy at the time so it must not have posted, can you email me at mike.boehmer@gmail.com?
@@mikeboehmer324 your good i went ahead and sent you an email thank you again
What a great video. My mother-inlaw has moose all over her house. I think my toddler and her would just love it. Do you have plans for this?
Thanks Chad! Unfortunately I do not have plans for this. I drew it out on very thin paper so I could trace over the original to get different templates if the whole moose. I tried to have these scanned and it did not end well for the paper.
I've watched this video a number of times over the past month and love what I see. Just a fast query. What is the glue you used on the leg joints. Was it a form of epoxy?
Thanks Tom! I used West System epoxy for the leg joints, it makes it rock solid. With the grain orientation and epoxy it’s strong enough for me to ride this bad boy 👍
A rocking moose to get excited about! All the rest out there look like they are based on Bullwinkle... Did you have any luck scanning your templates? If not, a couple of basic dimensions would make sure I get started on the right track. Could you provide the length and radius of the rockers and the height at the shoulder? Beautiful work!
Where can I get the pattern for this moose? I have a very good friend that’s pregnant and I want to make this for her soon to be son in a few months. Thank you for your time.
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Grazie mille!
Nice work! You wouldn't by chance have a rough list of materials you used? Need to build one for my first grandchild before he is born in September....:)
Thanks! Off the top of my head I want to say about 30bf of 8/4 walnut and a couple board feet of 8/4 maple for the antlers. Let me know when you build one, I’d love to see the final piece!
Question, was there any particular reason you glued up the body way you did? I'm thinking it would be easier to glue straight boards together and then cut the template out, looks like maybe you did it because of the grain pattern?
Yes it was done for grain direction to give the legs strength. Not as critical for the body as it is the legs but wanted the body to match the legs so there was as little a contrast as possible between the inside body and the leg pieces.
@@mikeboehmer324 thanks!
That was a fun watch -- what's that song you used?
Thanks, I can’t remember which song, it’s something from Epidemic Sound (tons of great stuff there)
Very Nice! Do you have any plan of this project that you can send us?
I’d like to scan the draw plans but the paper is very thin and long. I just need to get to a fed ex store and ask them if it’s possible. Some day soon..
Nice work - why not narrate along the way?