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We had a shop stool shortage around the shop. I promised to build a couple, this is the first one. I thought we could have “nice” stuff in the shop too, so I made it out of Black Walnut with maple pins. I used 6 ½ degree compound miters for all joints to give it the footprint I wanted. I used through mortise & tenon throughout. The seat is pinned to the legs with a ¾ inch dowel. The seat is sculpted from one piece of walnut, the legs are 1 ¾ inch square. I used 1 coat sealer, 3 coats poly. It’s fairly stout –
Schroeder
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-- The Gnarly Wood Shoppe
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14 comments so far
WayneC
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#1 posted 2200 days ago
Great stool.
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mot
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#2 posted 2200 days ago
Oh yeah! Cool!
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jockmike2
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#3 posted 2200 days ago
Nice looking stool Schroeder. jockmike
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scottb
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#4 posted 2200 days ago
looks great. Fit for the kitchen, or the shop… why not have your space be a testament to your skills?
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oscorner
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#5 posted 2200 days ago
The stool turned you really nice.
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Larry
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#6 posted 2200 days ago
As stated – great stool and great job..
Larry
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TreeBones
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#7 posted 2200 days ago
I bet you are the only shop with such a nice walnut stool. Realy nice.
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MsDebbieP
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#8 posted 2199 days ago
ditto to the above.
It looks quite comfortable!
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rentman
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#9 posted 2199 days ago
man you do good work,good job!!!!!
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Bob Babcock
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#10 posted 2199 days ago
Looks great…looks comfortable too.
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Karson
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#11 posted 2199 days ago
Great stool.
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Mark A. DeCou
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#12 posted 2198 days ago
did you use the Multirouter for the joinery? Stool looks great, more complicated than I could have figured out.
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schroeder
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#13 posted 2198 days ago
Thanks all for the encouraging words. It’s a comfortable stool the first time I tried contouring a seat – I had a lot of fun with it. After having built one, I’m going to give away my “joinery summer project” plan. Although I used glue on this one, the joinery is such that I believe it needs no glue. The compound angles on the cross pieces push out and up. The through tenons bind the joint further. So I plan on making another one of these for the joinery competition – there’s all my cards!
Mark – yes, this would have taken me forever without the Multi-router. This tool opens a whole dimension of woodworking that is frankly beyond my skill level. Keeping the angled cuts straight in my head on a project like this would, well …usually double the amount of wood I need. This thing is worth its weight in gold! – I can’t say enough about this tool.
If anyone wants a plan I think I’m going to try and make a set in SketchUp. It’ll be a little crude I’m sure, but I can get the basic dimensioning and angles on there well enough to be interpreted.
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Karson
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#14 posted 2198 days ago
Good luck on the Joinery contest.
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