A ROCKING SEAT

Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)

A ROCKING SEAT

This duck rocker might well please someone’ much older than the under sixes, who will welcome it with wild delight. It can be made quickly and easily, and is quite inexpensive; red pine is used.

Ticf-l A wife rocking'log. In fig. 1 the completed toy is shown, and in figs. 2 and 3, details of construction.

The wood should be gin thick. The rockers are 2ft x Ilin and the lower edges are slightly rounded. A spreader is fitted between the rockers to give them a width of

Tin at the top and Ift at the bottom measuring over all. The spreader may be nailed in or may be set in gin grooves for strength. The seat board is 2ft x 7in and is nailed to the spreader and to the edges of the rocker. Bumpers Bin x IJin are screwed on as shown to

save the rocker from going too far either way. Small rubbers are fixed to them to act as shock-ab-sorbers and noise deadeners.

The head may be cut from a simple piece 2in thick or may be made of two gin pieces, and a middle lin piece glued and nailed together (the grain, should cross in this case). The middle piece goes out to make the seat and the outer pieces are rounded off. Trace the pattern of the head and tail on the wood by the squaring method (making large squares and copying in each what you see in the squares given here). Head and tail are screwed to the seat board. A piece of Jin dowelling should be bored through the head for handles lOin long and pieces 3Jin long should be bored into the rockers for foot-rests. Steps 5m x 12Jin could be made and fixed so I that they are supported by small ' brackets nailed below them to the

rockers. Paint and a padded seat add much to the appearance of tha duck rocker. Any ingenious carpenter, could build a similar rocker with a donkey’s head and tail, or could even make one to look like "an ele» phant or a lion.