Apple wood & mystery wood stool

Dan great looking stool. I have a comment suggestion on putting tenons into the end of legs.

I thought that the spline should be placed cross grain to the main board that you are tenon into. On your second picture the spline at the bottom seems to be going into the same general direction as the main grain direction of the Apple Wood. That spline could cause a split because it’s acting as a wedge trying to drive the main board apart.

If it was cross grain it wouldn’t cause that condition.

Again I thought that was my underatanding of how it should be done. But, I’ve never done one. So I’m no expert on that technique.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karson,

You are 100% correct. That’s something I learned after completing the project. While building it, I just thought, “hmm, those wedges will look pretty cool all pointing in toward the center…” I was just lucky that it didn’t split.

Thanks, Dan

Nice stool

-- Glenn, New Mexico

Good looking stool….

-- Frank, Little River/Academy, Texas , http://www.allthingsrustix.com

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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The milking stool! Beautiful…great little stool!

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

I love the look of this stool!

CB

-- Chesapeake Bob, Southern Maryland

neat stool

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