Step Stool

nice piece … good neat job,

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

very nice, think I’ll make one of these for my shop..

-- James - Geneva, Switzerland

good looking step stool…how can you wrong combining cherry and maple?!

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

The contrasting wood looks great.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

it’s beautiful and very sturdy looking.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Just a great start on your journey through LumberJocks! Great step stool.

Love the contrast in woods. You have just a natural finish on this don’t you?

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

I appreciate the comments from everyone. I’m quickly being absorbed into Lumberjocks.

PanamaJack – Yes. Just a natural finish (Waterlox) and about a year of the cherry darkening on it’s own. Anyone successful darkening cherry faster without stains/tints?

-- Matt - Syracuse, NY

With or with out the natural finish it will still darken with age. I don’t think there is any stopping it. I sold cabinets for years, unfortunately not making them, though a local lumber yard. I go into these homes today and the cabinets are much, much darker than when I sold them. Including the ones that were a natural finish when sold. Can one micro wave cherry…I guess in smaller pieces. Maybe that would work…?

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Matt – I’ve read that Tried and True Varnish Oil darkens cherry up faster than other finishes…this from Christian Becksvoort – who has many years working with with cherry…not sure if it’s in this brief article but worth peeking at.

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Cool stool! And all from scrap, even cooler. Well Done.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

I hear that if you apply some latex paint and put sand in it, it will make that top step less slippery ;^D

Just kidding – nice work!

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Very cool looking step stoll. Nice job!

-- Greg Mitchell--Lowell, AR--gdamitchell@sbcglobal.net

putting cherry under a UV light – full spectrum bulb, or one for tanning – should do the trick – at least can simulate longer days under stonger sun to darken it up.

Beautiful work. I too have cut my own plugs, though I don’t do it very often. So nice to have options beyond the crappy end grain ones from the Big Box…

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

nice work, attractive piece!

Looks solid as a rock.

Great step stool..

-- Chris

Ahh, yes…very elegant construction of a handy piece.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Sturdy AND aesthetic, and built from scrap, too…you hit the bull’s-eye Matt!

Art

Nice job!!!!

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