Wooden Bar stool Help

Blue tape and reference off a flat surface. Say you want to remove 2”. Tape in that area around the leg. With the stool on a flat table or countertop or tablesaw, take a 2” block and mark the tape all the way around the leg. Cut to the line. File or sand the edges.

-- Dan I.G.N.

Thanks for the info. I will try and let you know.

For some reason, it’s impossible for me to post direct youtube links from my iPad but there’s a video from the account popularwoodworking (featuring Chris Schwarz) called “Level Four Feet”. If you have trouble finding it, let me know. I’ll get on my laptop and post a link.

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For my only stool I did what Dan suggested but with a pencil. Make sure you have a table that is level all the way around, shim as needed to get it level and then make sure the stool on it is level, again shim as needed. Take a block taller then you need and drill a whole at the height you want to remove, insert pencil and draw around all the legs. The hole sees too it the pencil doesn’t move. Now take a hand saw and follow the lines carefully.

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I had a similar issue when we replaced the floor in our kitchen and the bar stools had rectangular legs with only the corners touching the floor. I wanted to put glides on these legs but there was not enough surface area to attach any reasonable glide.

So I set a bar stool on my table saw, found the highest point I had to remove to get a full flat leg on the floor, stacked up some scrap wood that height, and marked off the perimiter I need to cut off.

The biggest issue was that in order to get the new cut flat on the floor I needed to make compound angle cuts. After some preliminary cuts to get the compound angle set correctly I diss-assembled the stools, cut the legs and we are now sitting pretty on squared, glided feet!

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