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Apple wood & mystery wood stool

Project by danriffle posted 470 days ago 414 views 0 times favorited 8 comments Add to Favorites Watch

This is a little stool I made a few years ago. It was my first real turning project. The top of the stool is from an apple tree that fell in my yard. It was a crotch piece that I slabbed with a chainsaw. The legs were turned from some wood from a packing crate—awful splintery stuff that never would get truly smooth no matter how much I sanded. The wedges in the legs were also packing crate scraps—some sort of dark red/purple exotic (purpleheart maybe?)

It’s about as simple as it looks: one piece slab top cut out with a jigsaw, around 12” legs turned on a lathe, holes drilled with a brace & bit, all put together on a workmate bench. The finish is tung oil.


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Karson

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posted 470 days ago

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 †

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danriffle

37 posts in 471 days


posted 470 days ago

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

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Bigbuck

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posted 470 days ago

Nice stool

-- Glenn, New Mexico

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SawDustnSplinters

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posted 470 days ago

Good looking stool….

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

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thetimberkid

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posted 470 days ago

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Moai

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posted 244 days ago

The milking stool! Beautiful…great little stool!

-- Francisco Luna, San Francisco Bay Area.

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ChesapeakeBob

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posted 50 days ago

I love the look of this stool!

CB

-- Chesapeake Bob, Southern Maryland

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a1Jim

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posted 50 days ago

neat stool

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

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