Jig for #7 rocker blades, South Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

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Jig for #7 rocker blades, South Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:

1955.7502.1

Community:

New York, Mount Lebanon

Makers

Shaker

Description

Shaper jig for rocker blades for No. 7 chairs. Base of cherry, hold-down assembly of maple. Steel, 5/16" diameter carriage bolts inserted through turned maple handles and screwed into captured nuts in base to clamp rocker blades in position (with iron washers at handle bases). Sand paper shims are glued to base and to underside of hold-downs to prevent rocker blades from slipping.

Notes

Miller, M. Stephen. Inspired Innovations: A Celebration of Shaker Ingenuity. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2010.

New York Mount Lebanon South Family

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