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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 109 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.
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danriffle
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posted 109 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
Bigbuck
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posted 109 days ago
Nice stool
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SawDustnSplinters
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posted 109 days ago
Good looking stool….
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thetimberkid
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posted 109 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
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