We build rocking chairs in small batches, or runs, of 8-12, usually of the same species. We are “running” walnut rockers now and taking photographs of the process. Some of these photos will appear on this shoplog, some on the website, some in the catalog, some may be submitted for press of some sort, and some will molder in their digital shoe box.
A run of rockers usually takes 8-10 workdays to get ready to assemble, but the photography is drastically slowing us down. The chairs have been underway for 8 days now, and we are about halfway. It takes a while to decide what needs taking, choose the angle (figurative and literal), get the light right, remove the clutter, and find the depth of field and exposure — and then, and yet to come, the editing of hundreds down to … fifty?
