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Our daughter, son in law, and grandson live with us. He, grandson, is getting bigger and doing more for himself. We were looking through old Woodsmith’s for the next project and Nana came upon the step stool and my path was set. Nice little project. Learned a ton about the joiner – lets just say there are more chips than necessary in the dust collector. Handling 8’ boards over a short bed joiner is not fun. After they were cut in half things progressed nicely.
When cutting the long tapers on the sides I did have a kick back issue. Ruined one side and had to make another. I am trying to remember to put my shop apron on when I get to the shop. This time I remembered and it saved me a bit of pain. It still hurt, but without that extra layer of heavy material it would have hurt a lot more. Mostly my pride was hurt – that was the first time I ever had an issue with kickback. I’m not so proud anymore.
Allen
-- bigfish "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." Vincent Van Gogh
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Jayp413
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#1 posted 1112 days ago
Great space saving idea!
PurpLev
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#2 posted 1112 days ago
very cool. adding this one the the ‘todo list’. Thanks for the post
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bigfish_95008
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#3 posted 1112 days ago
Maluco, it slides well, that is not to say that it slides nicely. I did have to take the chisel to a couple of spots where the poly was high. I expect it to get better over time as some of the finish is bound to scuff off a bit. During construction I had to take just a little more away for the dado.
Most of the mistakes er, ah, I mean character, are hidden from view as best I could.
Oh, when doing a glue up make sure all the grain is running the same direction. I could have paid a little more attention to that detail on all the panels.
-- bigfish "I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." Vincent Van Gogh
a1Jim
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#4 posted 1112 days ago
Very slick stool I like the slid out step.
-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/
Dave Owen
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#5 posted 1112 days ago
Neat idea and nice construction. Looks like it would be considerably safer than the ones I made with a narrow first step.
-- Dave O.
Bricofleur
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#6 posted 1112 days ago
This is a great stool. This is the first sliding step stool I ever seen. I like if a lot (I mean todo list). Thanks for all the added comments for the construction (character). Such stool, even small, can in fact be a good challenge. Great job and thank you for sharing.
Best,
Serge
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Monty Queen
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#7 posted 1111 days ago
nice job looks great.
-- Monty Q, Columbia, South Carolina.
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