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This is another piece made from “found” wood—a couple of Bradford pears were being taken down in front of a local business. Unfortunately the logs had already been sawn into short lengths (about 2’) but I still grabbed a few of the larger ones.
I rived the billets for all the legs & stretchers with an axe and hatchet, then shaped all the pieces with a drawknife using my workmate at a shaving horse. All the joinery holes were drilled with a hand drill and forstner bit.
I wove the top out of inexpensive Jute cord—half of which I dyed a dark green using RIT fabric dye. There was a LOT of time spent on this project as it was, more or less, my first time using a drawknife, plus the weaving is quite time consuming.
I finished it with some paste wax.
Dan
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jeanmarc
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posted 109 days ago
great work
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Dominic Vanacora
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posted 109 days ago
Thats a nice stool. It looks like your half way to a chair. I like the weaving and I can believe it took sometime to do as well. The different colors work well together. I have a hard stool from Wal-mart in the garage and after 2-3 mins my butt is sore. This would work great. Thats for the idea.
Nice project and a great reuse of lumber.
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thetimberkid
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posted 109 days ago
Great job!
Thanks for the post
Callum
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brianinpa
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posted 109 days ago
When I was in Boy Scouts, I made a stool from a kit that used reeds for the seat so I can really appreciate the efforts you took to make this: very nice.
-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.
SteveKorz
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posted 109 days ago
I like the contrast in the Jute cord… well put together, nice work.
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ChicoWoodnut
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posted 109 days ago
I like it. I hate when good wood goes to waste and it looks like you pulled these from the burn pile just in time.
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TedM
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posted 108 days ago
DDan, great hand work!
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