Spalted Maple/Walnut stool

Beautiful stool, the wood is awesome, the joinery sharp! I like this stools as a night table, to put books and a nice lamp.

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

I really like the way the grain wraps right around the corner. The dovetail keys dress it up nicely. Another good looking project, thanks for sharing it with us.

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

Is it a correct assumption that your project was inspired by Tommy M’s (a.k.a. T-Chisel) recent FWW Shaker Step Stool project? It looks like you modified the joinery from through dovetails to using mitered joins strengthened with walnut dovetailed splines and cut out a larger radius from the sides. Looks great..

The spalted maple will really pop once you get the finish completed. Make sure to post update pics. Very nice.

-- Scott, Colorado

Very cool!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

SwedishIron,
Actually I hadn’t seent that project. I saw a article called dovetail shootout a couple of years ago and started making a few of these for family and friends. The article covered numerous jigs and how they work for cuting dovetails and splines.
Thanks

Very nice… I like the dovetail keys, they make it.

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Nice looking project!

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

Nice step stool!

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

Nice detailing in the grain and joinery thank for posting ….Blkcherry

It looks like you cut each step and then the sides out of the same board – then joined the two boards together to make up a complete side. (I think that came out right…) that way the step follows the grain all the way down the side…. clever idea – it is VERY eye catching. Nice DT keys too!

-- "Start with ten.....end with ten"

The grain match is great and the dovetail keys are very catching. I’ love the grain in the boards.

Nice job.

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Great to see this classic design interpreted in something different. Nice work!

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

Nice choice of woods and joinery. This will be beautiful after it is completely finished. Keep us posted.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Zac,
After struggling through a couple stools I found I could just make a box with boards of the determined depth of the step, putting splines in the corners then making one cut on the sides of the box (ex. 15” from one end and 7.5” from the other) standing them up then edge/dowel/biscuit joining them together to form the steps. The box needed to be square to come out right. Only problem is you always have one corner that doesn’t match the grain pattern of the other.
Thanks for the comments