The piece of Cedar that I have is 8' long and about 6" wide. So I have some room to work with and some sawing I've got to get done. The piece of foam that I had is 8' by 4' by 2". Doing a little bit of math I figured that I would need a rocker that is no bigger then four inches from the outer curve to the bottom straight portion.
I drew up a fairly rough curved shape on the board:
Basically all I did to get this shape was find the mid point of the board and then marked off every 12" left and right from the mid point. My board is going to be 3" thick so at the midpoint I just measured up that 3" and marked it off. Then I just incremented how far I measured up at each one of the 12" marks. I connected the dots free hand and did my best to keep a smooth curve.
From here it is just a matter of cutting it out... I however, do not have a Jig Saw. I have a tiny little 6" saw that is used to cut dry wall. I have definitely given myself a bunch of extra work to do here.
It takes a good while but I finally get my shape cut out:
Now it's just time to clean up the cuts with some sand paper and the planer. It took me probably a good hour and a half to take the blank piece of cedar to a Stringer that I was happy with. I probably should have thinned it down a little bit, but we shall see how that goes.
Well that's all for now. after this I'm ready to start cutting my planks of foam from my template and start getting my rocker on the board worked out.
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