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I have made a few of these stools over the years. It is from a Woodsmith plan from the early 90’s, which I have adapted to suit the project I wanted to build. The first few I made with square legs, and a bandsawn top. That was before I got sucked into the turning vortex.
The seat is 14” in diameter and glued-up from some left over walnut, it is scooped out about 1/2” in the center for comfort. The legs and stretchers are all turned on the lathe, except I use a tenon cutter to make the 1” tenon on the tops of the legs and the 3/4” tenon on the end of the stretchers. This ensure the tenons are exactly the right size, inserting the tenon cutter into a chuck on the outboard end of the lathe makes this quick work.
-- Richard D. Wile, http://richard-wile.blogspot.ca/
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Jason™
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#1 posted 255 days ago
Very Nice you can send this to me whenever you get the chance. I will PM you my address…lol.
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#2 posted 255 days ago
great turned useful project.
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#3 posted 255 days ago
Really like the design and great use of the lathe. Are the legs tapered or is that just the photo?
rdwile
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#4 posted 255 days ago
The legs are not tapered, likely visual perspective in the photo.
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#5 posted 255 days ago
Very nice looking. Good job on the stool.
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#6 posted 255 days ago
great looking stool. the grain on walnut seat is very nice!
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#7 posted 253 days ago
wedge tenons look great
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